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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The naive little theory of government which is developed from Utilitarianism, and pushed forward to assail open elections, would undoubtedly possess much of the popularity imputed to it if there were about it an air of greater plausibility. As it stands, it cannot fail to interest the Junior Class in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AMERICAN OLIGARCH. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

These societies differ in character. In some the literary element is predominant; in some, the social. The most prominent class-offices differ in like manner. For some, marked literary ability is required; for others, that social ease which, for want of an English term, we call savoir faire. It is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

A body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

The college societies are limited in numbers, and their constitutions are such that an election to any one of them is a decided honor, - is a certificate of the possession of certain qualities which tend to fit a man for a prominent position. The members of these societies are elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE POLITICS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

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