Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surprised that the Monthly should open its columns to the publication of so partisan an article as Mr. Garrison's "Why I am not a Republican." Whether we agree with him or not in his violent outcry against the Republican party, we must deplore the admission of party politics into college journalism. The Monthly has not lived up to its literary standard, for the article can hardly claim recognition on the ground of its literary merit...
...Cleveland has stood openly on the side of free trade and the speaker questioned whether he had been the clean, non-partisan president which he had promised...
Unless more men sign immediately for the parade, instead of being larger and better organized than ever before the parade will be little more than a farce. No one should let political or partisan motives hinder him from joining in the procession. The purely political sentinent of the college will best be shown by the canvass; the parade itself is entirely a matter of personal enjoyment and fun. As the four different classes have voted to take part in the parade, let every one be ruled by the majority and make the Harvard procession the success it ought...
...local impulses. Sincere and honest private citizens can do their country more good by elevating the tone of parties than by manifesting a vacillating independence in politics. Mr. Storey practically admits this, but, accepting parties as necessary, he slurs over somewhat the real value of earnest work within partisan bodies...
...these college figures there is proof that the lines are drawn differently on partisan and economic issues, and that, as regards the tariff, the leaven of reform is doing good work. Thus, at Columbia, we find fifteen Republicans and fifteen protectionists. That this parity of numbers is merely a coincidence, however, appears from the fact that, although there were only eight Democrats represented in the vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats...