Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these the following fifteen have been retained: G. P. Adams '04, E. W. Baker '04, A. A. Ballantine '04, G. Bettman '03, G. Clark '03, P. B. Fischer sL., G. S. Forbes '02, M. Hale '03, J. H. Holmes '03, E. H. Letchworth '02, W. H. Low '04, W. H. Nelson '04, G. M. G. Nichols sL., W. H. Pitkin '02 and H. K. Stockton '03. The judges were Senator Frederick W. Dallinger '93, I. L. Winter '86, W. S. Youngman '95 and H. B. Huntington...
Senior--Stroke, Smith; 7, Bullard; 6, Gregg; 5, Platt; 4, Lawrence; 3, Morris; 2, Champollion; bow, Low...
...nothing. It is said that if we allow the Mayor to exercise discretion we shall have despotism; but we are willing to trust to the good sense of the American people to choose mayors who are capable of using discretion. With frequent elections there can be no despotism. Mayor Low is using discretion, and he is using it to save the people of New York from great evils. He has before him a law which is unenforceable, unrepealable and bad, and his only course in regard to it is to use his discretion to promote the welfare of the people...
...last rebuttal for Harvard was delivered by Clark. He said that while it has been contended that under any system other than strict enforcement there will be a great deal of black-mail, yet there was no black-mail in Brooklyn during Mayor Low's administration, when a discretionary policy was pursued in regard to the excise law. It has been furthermore shown that the only effect of Mr. Roosevelt's so-called strict enforcement of the law was to raise the price of black-mail for keeping open saloons on Sunday from $5 to $10. We have an executive...
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...