Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When undergraduates handle a "live" subject such as the war, they can hardly be expected--as individuals--to be otherwise than partisan. When the leader of a nation at war says "God is on our side," thereby implying that He is not on anyone else's he at least courts satirical comment from those individuals who believe in an impartial Diety. "Gott Mit Uns" is the expression of one man's opinion, honored with a prize because it is well put together, and not because it takes issue with Professor Meyer's people. It is not a Harvard prize poem...
...while civilization totters. Is it, after all, too Brisbanian an analogy? There were a thousand men at the football mass meeting last Thursday and yet no one expects that a fraction of that number will attend the discussion of the war tonight. Nevertheless, it should be a good meeting. Partisan animosities are now well under control and most people are aware of their own ignorance or lack of insight into the fundamentals of the conflict that finds half the civilized world in arms. Under such circumstances, there is everything to be gained and nothing to lose in free and fearless...
...committee appointed at the meeting recently called to organize a non-partisan political club reports that in the registration period just closed, it has assisted about thirty men to register in Cambridge, and has given assistance to a number of others who have been refused by the officials. The cases of some of these latter men will be carried as test cases to the courts; Mr. C. P. Howard attending to the preliminary investigations and preparation of these cases and counsel from the three great political parties assisting in the later stages. All men who have been so refused should...
...certain district had voted otherwise than he did, the election would have gone to the other candidate. In addition to its being the duty of every man to vote, the rapid growth of the primary has made it essential also that a man be a partisan; for it is at the primary even more than at the election that the character of the candidates is now established...
...university alone can adequately supply grows ever greater. Concrete expression of this sentiment was given in the submission of a bill to Congress during the past winter for the establishment of a National University. While government support possesses many definite advantages, institutions entirely free from government control and possible partisan influences secure distinct benefits attainable in no other...