Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...find some names which he would never associate with an institution of learning, - names of men whose opinions as to whether Logic should be substituted in the place of some of the Freshman Mathematics would be of far less value than their surmises as to how this or that caucus would probably vote. We may be thankful that a more rational plan has been adopted, and that the governors of the College are chosen by better qualified electors than the delegates to the General Court of Massachusetts...
...once more in the arena of that contest which is so rapidly degenerating into a mere sporting event. A general scrub-race, thrown open to crews from any of the twelve hundred and eighty-four so-called colleges of this unhappy Union, will soon become more like the celebrated caucus-race than a decisive trial of strength and skill. We prefer a duello to a brawl...
THIS can be called representation in a certain geographical sense, so to speak, but hardly in any rational sense, and has the effect of exaggerating and perpetuating those false issues which we now seek to avoid. The mere fact, however, that given sections of a class should hold caucus meetings has nothing in it foreign to the purest democracy, nor even that they aim at securing positions for their candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point...
...finite and human, while Cambridge, Old Cambridge, would know no other law than the philosophy of the Unconditioned, transcending all the petty efforts of a Port government. The students and professors would be the voters of the town; and every ambitious Sophomore might air his rhetoric at the caucus, and possibly taste the sweets of office. The voters would parade the town in caps and gowns, and listen to stirring addresses in Greek and Latin; and the venerable College would flourish, unrestrained by other rule than that of the body which first founded it, the "General Court of Massachusetts...