Word: annually
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Brief Proper.I. Annual elections have grave defects. A. Their frequency presents dangers. (1) The work must be left to professional politicians and bosses. (a) Few of the best men can actively participate. (2) Constantly recurring elections breed neglect of issues. (a) In off-years half the registered voters do not vote in Massachusetts. (b) On the average only 67 per cent. vote in Massachusetts. (c) In representative biennial election states 80 per cent, and over vote. (E. H. Haskell, Biennial Elections, p. 13.) B. They are expensive. (1) $148,000 is spent on a single election. (Mr. Winn, Boston Traveller...
...objections to annual elections, viz.: expense and trouble, are without weight. (A) Expense is very slight. (1) Only four cents per capita spent by the state on its an ual election. (G) Bradford's speech of Oct. 13, 1896). (B) Trouble is wisely taken (E. E. Hale's Speech at Faneuil Hall, Oct. 23, 1896) Government by the people is founded upon trouble for the people. (a) Educational influence is great. (x) Keeps state issues before the public. (y) "Political judgment grows by exercise." Bridgeman...
...annual Freshman games were held on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon and, although no records were broken, the games were interesting on account of the closeness of the contents and the uniformly fair results. The results o the various events show that there is no material in the class of exceptional ability, although several men may develop well eventually...
Yale, Harvard and Princeton have been invited to compete with Cornell and Pennsylvania in the annual cross country run in Philadelphia on Thanksgiving...
This afternoon on Holmes Field the annual Freshman games will be held. In most of the events there is quite a large list of entries and some of the men have good reputations for athletic ability. Since the entry list was printed several more men have been entered...