Word: evenements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...root of the trouble is that not one undergraduate in a hundred knows anything definite about the situation, and that not one can find out anything definite if he tries. The men in the University have a vital interest in athletics, even if for no other reason than that they do the largest share in supporting them, and they ought at least to know something about them. Publicity would also help athletics greatly, for under present circumstances such evils as there are never come out to be remedied, and the impossibility of getting information lends credence to every story that...
...should we so completely lose ourselves in admiration of the Fathers, so glorify their wisdom and courage, by confessing that we are weak and foolish, and by demonstrating our timidity? If the Fathers had lacked the moral courage to consider even the question of the practicability and desirability of framing the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation would have been accepted as a frail bond of union. A tithe of the courage and independence required of them ought to suffice for us in the duty of considering whether there should be any amendment...
...Congress will not propose any amendment of importance--a glance at history and even a hurried view of present conditions surely must banish every doubt about that. It is a generation since the Congress proposed any amendment, and yet there has been ceaseless agitation for amendment...
There is but one way to amend the Constitution, or even to real, sooer consideration of the subject of amendment, and that is through the action of State Legislatures, moving upon the Congress for a Constitutional Convention...
...Even if the Convention were to come and go without a single change in the Constitution, still it would not have been created in vain. A centring of thought upon the Constitution and upon propositions for amendment, and their serious consideration, sure to attend and follow the amendment movement, could hardly fail to be productive of great good. Perhaps but few amendments would be proposed, and fewer still would be ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted...