Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power of appointing all (sixty) committees is contrary to this spirit (1) Lodges in one man power to shape every bill presented. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 69,) (2). Such power with an unprincipled speaker would work inconceivable ruin. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 7). (3) Such power even with a good speaker is bad; (a) Likely to cause irremedial mistakes. (b) The committees are so numerous that many must be composed of men of small calibre. C It is arbitrary powers deprive members of freedom of debate, provided in constitution. (Amend. I). (1) The speaker has absolute control over all methods...
...strange it is to read in any publication of this University that a "nonpartisan" attitude is "impractical," that "it has a good deal of weakness, and tendency to procrastinating all but the easiest decisions," (whatever this last may mean). And again, how strange to read that Harvard men, and "even less than the graduates of other colleges," "have been of very little use to our country in politics." And yet James Russell Lowell is still remembered, and we are still in mourning for William E. Russell. and only a little while ago Theodore Roosevelt was the most talked...
...from a wooden technic, overlook the fact that these oldest buildings were by no means constructed wholly of wood, their walls and roof being largely made of clay, a material which required great compactness. Professor Doerpfeld then showed how these ancient, close-built temples, when transferred into stone, became even more solid and heavy; whereas later they assumed slenderer forms and more graceful proportions...
...remark that the question as to the form and inner arrangements of the Greek Theatre is one most ardently discussed at the present time among archaeologists and classical scholars. It interests not only the professional scholar, but also the lover of literature,- since it is impossible to appreciate or even to understand the Greek dramas without knowing how they were brought out; and their representation was dependent on the inner arrangements of the theatre. Until recently it has been universally believed that, in the action of the Greek play, actors and chorus occupied separate parts of the theatre:- the former...
ONCE try a pair of Crawford Shoes costing $5.00, $4.00 or even $3.00, and you will no longer wonder at its great success. At Crawford Shoe Stores, 225 Washington street, and 36 Park square...