Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...according to the spirit of the Constitution. I. The Federal Constitutional Convention favored it. (a) They gave the question thorough discussion (McMasters, Forum, XX, 258). (b) The only objection to re-eligibility was when Congress should elect the President. (1) Frequent votes show this (Aowe, No. Am. Rev., 130, p. 120). (2) When the electoral plan was debated no objection was offered to re-eligibility. (c) None of the delegates who refused to sign the Constitution gave, in their public statements, as a reason for their refusal, the re-eligibility clause. II. The State Conventions, called to ratify the Constitution...
...Biennial elections are an improvement. A. Being less frequent they present advantages. (1) Professional politicians will find employment only at greater intervals. (2) They lead to an increased vote. (a) This has been the result in other states. B. They are economical. (1) They save the expense of one election every two years. (2) They save $100,000 in shortening legislative term. (3) They do away with the unnecessary length of session C. Biennials tend to better legislation. (1) Legislators are more carefully elected. (2) Legislators will be better trained. (3) Increased term tends to do away with hasty legislation...
Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field the Freshman eleven defeated Exeter by a score of 4 to 0. The game was very loosely played on both sides and fumbles were frequent. Nine een hundred's interference was poor and her kicks were blocked several times. Williams did some fine punting for Exeter and G. Shaw tackled well...
...second half was characterized by poor playing and long delays. Punts were frequent on both sides. Neither side was able to score but the ball was in Exeter's territory a large part of the time. At the close of the game the ball was on Exeter's 15 yard line...
...were able to see nothing of the ruins of the settlement of heroic times. Can we, then, longer doubt that Troy has actually been found, when we see before us stately walls of heroic times, and when the great importance of the site is so clearly demonstrated by its frequent prehistoric settlement...