Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McAdoo, in speaking of "The Guarding of the City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant...
...City would be to make it independent of politics, to separate the detective and the patroling branches of the service, to reduce the graft, blackmail, and mismanagement of officials, to make promotion in the ranks depend upon personal merit only, and to use some method whereby each policeman would keep to his beat. Finally, he said, that unless the good predominates and the morartone of the majority is good, laws are in vain...
...accidentally opens a letter to the millionaire from a certain newspaper, requesting a market forecast. James Brown, more commonly known as "Jimmy," is about to disclose the fact that he is not the great man, when he meets an old college chum named Knight Byrd who induces him to keep up the pretence and to manufacture a market forecast for the paper. The letter is written with random carelessness and sent to the paper before the real millionaire arrives. Joshua P. Brown, of course, quickly dethrones Jimmy; but the letter has already done its work and Vanderventer Parks, the father...
...Townsend soon followed with a goal, which was scored from a scrimmage near the goal posts. After a few minutes of rushing the puck around the rink, Rumsey suddenly scored during a scrimmage. After this goal the attack of the University team weakened and its opponents were able to keep the puck near Harvard's goal for a considerable time. The defense, however, was strong and prevented any scoring. Finally, Rumsey again got possession of the puck, rushed it the length of the rink, and scored on a long shot...
...never come out to be remedied, and the impossibility of getting information lends credence to every story that gets abroad. If athletics were run in the open, we might well rely on the general good sense of the undergraduate mind to correct all abuses of any moment, and to keep athletics thoroughly democratic. This shut-mouthed policy does us still further injury by causing doubt and uncertainty, mingled with no little suspicion, on the part of our athletic rivals, and by putting us in a bad light with the general public...