Word: nonpartisan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Debate for Thursday, Oct. 21, '97."Resolved, That a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission, composed of business men, college professors and men of public affairs, appointed by the President, should be established to draw up tariff bills...
...strange it is to read in any publication of this University that a "nonpartisan" attitude is "impractical," that "it has a good deal of weakness, and tendency to procrastinating all but the easiest decisions," (whatever this last may mean). And again, how strange to read that Harvard men, and "even less than the graduates of other colleges," "have been of very little use to our country in politics." And yet James Russell Lowell is still remembered, and we are still in mourning for William E. Russell. and only a little while ago Theodore Roosevelt was the most talked...
...Harvard Reform Club, nonpartisan and standing pledged to support such conservative reform movements as from time to time it may espouse, the organization cannot fail greatly to widen its influence, and to become a power in the University. More, and men of even greater national significance will speak under the auspices of the club since not only the range of subjects which can be pertinently touched upon, will be wider but there will be nothing in such a name as the Harvard Reform Club which might make the most timid, suppose of ballot reformers, dread being compromised to free trade...
...bill is non-sectional and nonpartisan; Text of bill...