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...party, and should send the Athletic Association the bill. There is always a new manager, laudably eager for the happiness of his team and seldom so careful about expenditures as an older man would be. It is the purpose of the committee not to be stingy, but to check graft wherever it can. In one direction the committee believes that it has increased expenses legitimately. It has done more than in earlier years for the comfort of visiting teams and has shown them more hospitality...
...whole, Mr. Clews spoke of that particular branch of socialistic program known as municipal ownership. In the United States the political system is so different from that of other nations that socialism is precluded. All has been accomplished by the individual effort of her citizens. Socialism would mean unlimited graft and corruption in our polities...
Obliging the manager conducting the competition to make a final report to the "H" men of the sport, or even to the Student Council, stating his decision and reasons, although it undoubtedly eliminates the possibility of graft, cannot cure an evil in itself incurable. We should strike at the root. The fairest and most effective remedy seems to leave the whole matter to the Student Council. Abolish competitions; let the applicants for each managership hand their names in to the manager; let him, after investigation, report to the Student Council decide, upon their past records. This plan has been found...
...honor of a certain Mr. Biff Hall, lately elected alderman, and was assigned to a seat beside him. At the close of the dinner a great loving-cup was passed around, each man giving an appropriate toast. When it got to Mr. Ade he rose and said "Hall, pull, graft, alderman...
...find "graft," said Mr. Steffens, is to go to a "grafter" for it. The board of aldermen in every city of the country are corrupt, and betray the confidence of the people whom they represent. The American government no longer represents the whole nation, but only its worst and most unscrupulous part...