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...smaller college offers social advantages not to be had at the univesity.- (a) The students become intimately acquainted with more of their fellow-students.- (b) There is more society life.- (1) Fraternities: Andrew D. White, College Fraternities, in Forum, III, 240 et seq. (May, 1887).- (2) Debating and literary societies...
Best general references: Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-138; Smith, Const. Manual and Digest (see "Speaker" in Index) 52 Cong. 1 Sess. 1892; Lalor, Cyclopaedia, III. 91; A. B. Hart, Practical Essays, No. 1, pp. 1-19; J. G. Carlisle in North American Review, Vol. 150, pp. 390-400 (Mch. 1890); Senator Hoar in North American Review...
...III. The increased control which the Speaker has gained over procedure and debate is beneficial.- (a) Fillibustering checked.- (b) Party majority is better able to carry out.- (c) This increased power has been confirmed by the courts and by both political parties...
...III. The present powers of the Speaker, as a party leader, are obnoxious to good government.- (a) It reduces the Speaker to the position of a partisan in the chair: N. A. R. Vol. 150. 121.- (1) His committee appointments will be partisan: 19th Cent. XXVIII. 863.- (2) His selection of speakers from the floor will be partisan: Practical Essays p. 13.- (3) His ruling on points of order will be partisan: Bryce...
Lectures on Social Problems.Dr. Frederick H. Wines, of Springfield, III., will give six lectures in Sever 11, at 7.30 p. m., as follows...