Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should also wear his cap and gown. In past years Senior pictures have been taken with a large number of men in plain clothes. As long as custom calls for the wearing of the academic costume, all who come to the picture should conform to the unwritten law...
...wishing to usher at the Harvard-Cornell dual track meet on Saturday afternoon. May 10, may sign blue-books at Leavitt & Peirce's and in Langdell Hall at the Law School until Thursday evening. Men ushering at this meet will be given the preference in the intercollegiate Meet. List of ushers will be published later...
...Croly began by discussing questions connected with political re-organization exclusively with reference to the mechanism of state government, treating the subject fully. In reaching his conclusions, he stated that neither representative government nor government by law nor any combination between the two are competent to meet all the requirements of a democratic policy. A clear-sighted, self-confident and loyal democracy will keep in its own hands the active control of all the agents and instruments of its own fulfillment. The instinctive repugnance which the American democracy has always exhibited to the delegation of too much power...
...speaker opened his argument by explaining the achievements of constitutional government in this country. It has built up our economic prosperity. But at the same time the existing system has impaired the people's ability to assume responsibility, and has forced the courts to exercise political functions in preserving law and order...
...best remedy is a shift of responsibility from the courts to the people. This change might be disastrous if effected by a violent transition. The only reasonable change will be by constant, gradual securing of control over the law. No deification of popular will is implied in the proposition. The decisions of the people cannot be called right until they have been tried, but their will and reason should eventually bring a more democratic, satisfactory government...