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...Extravagance must be curbed; and in order to accomplish this without disrupting the governmental organization, some system of appropriating moneys for national expenditures must be devised. We have been contemplating a budget system for many years, and the time has come when the public interest makes it imperative to enact legislation that will bring about this improvement in our financial system...
...corps of instructors. Eleven hundred students, nearly the half of all Harvard's enrollment, have joined the regiment's ranks. Today, when they greeted the Secretary of War, they were already prepared to pass before him not alone in the polite ritual of the formal reviewing drill, but to enact for him, on the manoeuvre ground at Fresh Pond illustrations of the actual tactics employed in battle as battles are fought today on the West front. It is even probable that the review enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker in which the lately revised American...
...case of the Armitz Brown in 1814 the Supreme Court handed down the opinion that the sovereignity of the United States extended to the confiscation of enemy property, and stated that "a declaration of war does not in itself enact a confiscation of the property of the enemy--but that power of confiscating enemy property is in the legislature." Professor Hart points out that in any event the war powers of the President would allow him to take over the ships and leave the question of their confiscation to be settled later...
These changes were only a small beginning of what needed to be done. To the best of our knowledge they are eminently moderate, practicable and desirable. And yet the Faculty declined to enact them. No one could complain of too cursory and inadequate consideration of the subject, for it has been before the Faculty during a whole month. The students have a natural wish to be shown the faults in these two proposals. Why did the Faculty reject them? C. H. SMITH...
...wave of national sentiment, and now denounced the slaveholders and their allies of the north. Impelled by this tide of enthusiasm, Fietcher Webster, son of the most conspicuous enemy of the anti-slavery crusade, took command of a Massachusetts regiment and later died on the field, fighting to re-enact the law of God, which his eloquent father had refused to do--I name Colonel Webster, not for the sake of reviving an old controversy as to the patriotism of his illustrious father, but because of a peculiar incident of his command in the summer of 1861. During the dull...