Word: drastic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although municipal government in America has not been so drastic a failure as some would have us believe, our cities have been badly managed, and the out grafter has held the ascendency with ineffectual reformers combating against him. In politics there has been an element of respectable men, who have been but machine tools. Reformers have failed principally because they have held the power without knowing how to give the community what it needed...
...captain. It may be best for one of these bodies to take the steps leading to the establishment and continuance of a consistent policy. But what we need most is patience--not the sort which endeavors to smooth over a defeat and immediately tries a new coach as a drastic remedy, but the patience which fixes its support upon one man or body of men and backs them until they win. Only the most strong-minded committee or captain can survive the attacks resulting from the existing feeling of restlessness. With the right sort of confidence a mediocre but enduring...
...would, of course, be possible to stop this practice by expensive squads of police, but with the co-operation of the undergraduates such drastic measures should not be necessary. The Stadium is amply provided with stairways, and the brief delay caused by using the proper exits is not of enough importance to excuse such serious accidents as may occur through over-haste...
...industries, and it is evident that too rigid terms demanded from operating companies paralyze their industries. A compromise must be made which is favorable to the investing companies. This difficulty in regard to franchises may be remedied by two methods: by trying to alter legislation, or by the more drastic method of municipal ownership...
...that the Boston Herald, lately chastened by a Harvard graduate for printing malicious lies about his young children, expresses the conviction that the Dean's course compromises the dignity and authority of the University. The Herald praises the good sense of the undergraduates who favor the most drastic treatment of the case. Smarting itself with recent stripes it howls for the punishment of others. It doubts that the terms of the agreement with the Med. Fac. will be lived up to by its members; suggests that the Harvard authorities seem to regard Harvard students as a privileged aristocracy, and artfully...