Word: man
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McClure, D.D., president of the McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, will speak before the University Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. His subject will be "Some Things a Man Should Fight." All members of the University are invited...
...wise to perform untried experiments, but we should profit by the teachings of experience. It has been demonstrated beyond the possibility of doubt that a government of one chamber is superior to one of two. In the same way, the experiment of a government administered by one man has always failed. Another defect in our municipal systems is the election of delegates by wards or districts, the small interests of each local division interfering with the general interests of the community. Boston illustrates these three systems which need reform...
Although many changes and alterations of universal suffrage have been suggested, these are not advantageous because this principle lies at the bottom of our system of government. One way to render this plan more efficient is to reduce the number of nominees for whom one man may vote. On every ballot now presented there is a long list of men, many of whom are in all probability entirely unknown to the voter. If there are but five men to be elected, the voter is sure to be able to choose more competently. This system has proved successful wherever...
...corporations and even by the United States army. In the building up of Harvard University, which has been attributed to the President, the real power has been with the group of men who directed him. The conduct of a city's business is too great a work for one man...
...draw on. Smith, who played at right halfback this year, is a promising candidate for centre. He played a brilliant game in that position on his Freshman team, and is much better suited to it than to the backfield. Hadden, this year's substitute centre, is a good man, and plays an aggressive game...