Word: directness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford Press has had the longest continuous existence of any printing establishment. A press was instituted in 1478, but it did not come under the direct control of the university until 1585. Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...
Shifting the responsibility for American constitutional development from the courts to the entire electorate by means of a new machinery for amending the Federal constitution was the method for securing independence of the courts from political influence and establishing more direct expression of public will, proposed by Mr. Herbert D. Croly '90, in the Godkin series of lectures last night. Mr. Croly claimed that the United States, with its national unity now well established, has outgrown its old system of government by law, and should be ruled by the popular will...
...Godkin Lectures. "Democracy and Responsibility. IV. Direct versus Representative Government." Mr. Herbert Croly. Emerson...
...Herbert D. Croly '90 will deliver the third Godkin lecture in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. Continuing the general subject of "Democracy and Responsibility," the speaker will talk this evening on "The New Democracy and the Constitution." The remaining lectures are on Wednesday. "Direct versus Representative Government," and Friday, "The Mechanism of Popular Representation." All are open to the public...
...issue now confronting the country is whether our traditional system shall be permanent. Direct government, as typified by the initiative and the referendum, is revolutionary in its underlying theory, and cannot be introduced into our system of government by law, as advocated by radical politicians. Government by law, founded by practical men of affairs, has succeeded most of the time in supporting public opinion; but if the popular will changes, we must determine to what extent the living popular will can amend the dying will as expressed in the traditional system...