Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...charge for a ticket, entitling the holder to the use of a court for the afternoon, is changed from twenty-five cents each to two for twenty-five cents. Coupon tickets and probably season tickets will be put on sale later...
...Senior's Day. Its success depends largely upon our ability to keep the Yard solely in possession of seniors and their friends. To accomplish this, every possible precaution has been taken. Tickets have been made from special sketches, copyrighted and numbered, and a record will be made of the holder of every ticket that leaves the committee's office...
...spoils system affects others besides the office seeker and holder. In listening to the demands and weighing the claims of the multitudes of competitors, the time of members of Congress and of the president is unprofitably wasted. They have no leisure for the serious affairs of government, and the evils of this condition of things are shown in the steady deterioration of the legislature at the present day. The active evils of the spoils system were illustrated by Mr. Storey at great length, but cannot be entered into here...
...Cleveland has professed sympathy with civil service reform, especially condemning, (a) offensive partisanship, (b) contributions from office-holder, (c) removals except for cause. Cleveland's Inaugural Speech, Mch. 4, 1885, and his Letter of Acceptance...
...comparison of the constitutions of America and Great Britan, he expressed great admiration for the former because of the protection which it afforded to the property holder. Parliament has the power to deprive a man of his property and there is no appeal; but in America such is not the case, since, if ever property be taken in consideration of the public good, the owner is fully recompensed. The American constitution developes lawyers of a higher standard because it enables them to take advantage of any defect which they may find in the law, a privilege which is denied...