Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are the essential thing, that without them the thought is of no consequence. A great truth in itself, but one which leads by a treacherous descent to the error of supposing that the facts are more important than the thought, that they are the only things that count. The best among the students rebel against this narrow dogma; a number, I fear, accept it implicitly as indisputable...
...dinner the winning school will receive the shield given by the Athletic Association as well as the cup presented by the undergraduate in 1910. The shield is a permanent possession but the cup goes to the new winner each year. Although four places will count in the scoring, medals will be given after the dinner, only to first, second, and third place winners...
...mechanics of elections are concerned, of the undue power of the "machine" in American politics. The Hare system remedies this weakness. The method is simple: the Hare system permits, though it does not require, the voter to indicate on his ballot which candidates he wants his one vote to count for in case it cannot help elect the candidate marked as first choice, which one he wants it to count for in case in cannot help elect his first choice or his second, etc.; and it provides for the carrying our in the count of the wishes expressed thus...
However, Mr. Hearst's warm friends and admirers have assured him that he is the man of the hour and that he can count on them to create an issue if necessary to make him popular. Thus reassured, the "people's choice" has retired, to avoid influencing anybody in any way. This natural shrinking from publicity is strangely reminiscent of that memorial of his generosity--the vast Greek stadium given to a university in California. On the inside of this, in letters of green three feet high, it is said, is the inscription: "Given by William Randolph Hearst...
...more beloved as the knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait by Van Dyck, the St. Jerome of Ribera, the so-called Rembrandt's Daughter by Turner, and the portrait of Count Rumford by Gainsborough. For those who are still more modern in their tastes there are oil and water colors by Winslow, Homer, Whistler, LaFarge, Dodge Macknight, and others...