Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...minority votes mean minority rule, we have minority rule under the present system. For only a small minority of the people vote, since women and children are barred. The theory is that those who do vote represent the people as a whole. So it is with the initiative and referendum; those who do vote represent the whole people. The initiative and referendum do not introduce the evil of minority rule. But they do introduce positive benefits. They raise the calibre of the legislators. When corruption is taken away from our legislatures, better men will seek to enter them. Moreover...
...their right to appeal to the United States Courts for protection, a right stated in the last clause of the amendment. The question arises of what is meant by the term "person." Are persons individuals, or groups of individuals forming a corporation? What is meant by "property?" Does it mean to do what one pleases with one's own, or that the right to one's own is restricted by relations to the state, and national government...
Hitherto the CRIMSON has not mentioned the subject in its editorial columns for several reasons. It has not wished to become mixed up in the controversy which found vent in communications to us regarding the meaning of Socialism and the strike at Lawrence. Neither does it wish to get mixed up in the controversy now. At the same time, whatever Socialism may mean, and who-ever may be right, we are at least interested in this tract of the Socialist Club, not because we want to see more socialists, nor because it is a remarkable or flawless bit of argument...
...have we not a new party? It is because a new party can only be formed by the creation of some new principle, and this has not yet been done. The parties differ as to the application of the present principles. When a man says, "He may mean well but I don't like the way he goes at it," that man means that he does not want a man who gets results. The Progressive Movement in New Hampshire has so far been confined to state issues, but there is an indication that it will be extended to National issues...
...convince a student that Italian paintings are worth while, or that he might get great benefit from studying the Meleager: he will admit that at the start. The trouble comes in trying to lead him towards the Museum, and bring him to the realization of what these treasures mean. However much men may acknowledge their negligence, they do not yet realize it. In some way a current must be started that will bring them to the Fogg Museum. The first step in this direction is to advertise. We call everyone's attention therefore to this appeal of the Fine Arts...