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...term; on his departure a successor was appointed, not elected; at the meetings of the committee some members almost made it a business to stay away, or if present took no active part in the affairs they were elected to transact. The Membership Committee this year was lax in performing the small amount of business its duties called for: five men not members of the Union were nominated for officers; the list of nominees was representative of a particular class of men and not of the University; the number of men required by the Constitution was not nominated...
...April Monthly is serious, almost depressingly serious. Almost every article, prose, or verse, holds up to view, or for review, a moral theorem, from W. V. Moody's "Pandora" singing the resistlessness of non-resistance (or something like that) to the editors lashing the lax yet elastic conscience of collegiate youth. The conscience of the Monthly is not lax, nor means it "to while away idleness in pursuit of those things which are not of the spirit...
...supporting this doctrine of temporary suspension we not only do justice to an honest European creditor; we also greatly benefit the South American debtor. These states according to practically all authorities are exceedingly lax in meeting their financial obligations; by threatening them with the loss of part of their territory as punishment for their laxity, we should teach them national responsibility. We should teach them, moreover, to respect the principles of arbitration, and they will learn that to consent to arbitration implies an obligation to abide by the award...
...further developed the specific evils which would result from a non-enforcement of this particular law. In establishing this position, he showed that non-enforcement of the excise law would result in breeding disrespect for law in general among the citizens. He then brought out the fact that lax enforcement of law lies at the root of the great evil of black-mail and that when the law says one thing and the policy of the administration another, the patrolman on his beat may collect blood money to his heart's content. For when an executive assumes discretionary powers with...
Anthony closed the debate as third affirmative in rebuttal. He showed that lax enforcement of the law would not necessarily insure Mayor Low's return to office next year. The great principle of the reform administration is reform and nothing else will satisfy those who elected Mayor Low. But even if defeated Mayor Low should not commit blackmail by promising to connive at the law in return for votes. The principle advanced by the negative is one of local anarchy. The statute says that the Mayor shall enforce the law and the people have declared themselves in favor of enforcement...