Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...negative side for the Princeton freshmen was opened as follows: the initiative and referendum will not prove effective remedies of the evils in our government. They fail to reach the evils because while the faults of our government are largely within the legislature, the suggested reforms contemplate a remedy which operates outside of the legislature. Then, too, they will introduce new evils in our government. They accomplish this by stripping the legislature of responsibility and authority, and make the representative no longer a man of brains and conscience...
...clock. So far only three teams have entered, and in order to make the series a success it is necessary to have a large number of teams participating. It therefore behooves all those who intend to enter, either on teams or individually to do so without fail before 5 o'clock tomorrow...
...Coming presidential election involves the adjustment of such important political and economic affairs of the nation that each man in College who is eligible to vote should not fail to support his choice for office. The first opportunity for giving this support will be offered to members of the Republican and Democratic parties on Tuesday, April 30, when the polls will be open in Cambridge from 12 o'clock noon until 9 o'clock in the evening. Voters of the Republican and Democratic parties will give votes for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate delegates to the National Conventions...
Trials for the University tennis team will begin on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Men who fail to appear within a half hour of that time will be defaulted. Courts will be reserved for all matches, but must be paid for as usual...
...illustrated talk, "Hunting with Canoo and Camera in New Brunswick" proved to be an example of the very best of its kind. Mr. William J. Burns need scarcely be mentioned to call to mind the enthusiastic crowd which greeted this presence in the Living Room. Nor should we fail to notice that three of the departments in which Harvard ranks high--medicine, the law, and engineering--have within a very few weeks been admirably discussed by Dr. Cabot, Dean Thayer, and Professor Dugald C. Jackson of Technology, respectively. When in addition, we remember three Pierian concerts and six readings...