Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...initiative and referendum are correct in theory and also in practice for it has been shown that they have remedied the evil conditions found in legislatures of today. In Oregon, South Dakota, Missouri and other states where they have been adopted they have prevented bad legislation and at the same time insured good laws. A contrast of conditions in these states before and after the adoption of the initiative and referendum shows the great benefit which has resulted in the adoption. The legislative conditions of today are real and serious. The initiative and referendum have a record of proved success...
...first glance this sentiment appears somewhat startling. But a second thought will show the statement to be absolutely correct in describing the club situation as all Harvard men should wish it to be. In fact the "power" so-called, of clubs at Harvard, is individually so meagre that a New York newspaper recently published three pictures: Yale's Skull and Bones, the Princeton Ivy Club House, and the Harvard Union, under the general heading of influential college societies. To Harvard men the picture of the Union grouped by the side of the Bones house may have generated a strain...
...careful copies of the three manuscripts of Herbert's poems upon which a correct text has to be based, the first editions of Walton's Life, and copies of the few other lives that have been published since...
...correct the present hit-or-miss method the Executive Committee of the Student Council proposes itself to draw up and submit the list of nominees. Following somewhat the lines of upper-class elections, additional nominations to this list may be made by petitions signed by 35 members of the class. Also the elections will be held under the Australian ballot system at the Lodge of the 1877 Gate. Thus, not only will the voters have an opportunity to consider, propose and finally elect the best men, but a decent formality will be given a hitherto slap-dash election...
...CRIMSON wishes to correct the statement made in yesterday's issue to the effect that men helping at the election today would be excused from College appointments. Although the Office will not discipline students in good standing for absence to help in the election, the effect of such absence upon students' grades is decided by the instructors of the courses in question...