Word: needed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Poor government is caused by men not acting together and not being united on the same questions. The city is only a large club, so it would seem that the simplicity of its object would ensure success. Yet a city government will not run itself and there is need of continual watchfulness and bright intelligence...
Minority representation can also be suggested, but the principle of the rule of the majority is not likely to be given up. Much can be said for a single chamber instead of two, but even in a smaller city than ours, measures need most thorough discussion and mature deliberation and the opinion of one house is much more likely to be at fault than that...
...control of all of these organizations will pass to the junior class. The four clubs have worked hard throughout the season for this one concert, and everything points to a successful result. When the limited amount of advertising which the authorities allow to the musical clubs is considered, we need to make no apology for advising all members of the University who may not have realized that the concert is to be given tomorrow evenin, to get tickets of the members today...
...greatest value of religion now-a-days is to create a state of mind in which repentance is possible; when it fails to do this it becomes worthless. The religion of today is not as effective as it should be. Men need some power which will show them how to repent and can help them to do it. The Kingdom of Heaven is always at hand to every...
...central spot; it would provide a reading-room, where the leading newspapers and periodicals would be on file, smoking room, a library, a billiard-room, a large hall for meetings, and a restaurant. It would naturally come to be a resort for graduates, who feel more and more the need of a meeting place to which they can go when in Cambridge; it would also serve as a proper place for putting up strangers. Furthermore, it would in nowise compete or conflict with the existing small clubs and societies maintained by the undergraduates; it would simply offer the advantages above...