Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...stir up the South: North Am. Review CLIII, 653-54 (December 1891).- (b) Corruption and fraud are the inevitable results of such control: Senate Reports 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Report of Com. on Election Frauds.- (c) Power would be centralized under Federal authority and used for the perpetuation of partisan rule: Sen. Rep. 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Rep. of Com. on Election Frauds...
...Faculty and a young man then engaged in religious work in the "Lower Poit," in company with a few earnest workingmen of Cambridgeport, engaged a room in the Prospect House building on Massachusetts avenue, near Central Sqare, and organized an association for philanthrophic educational work on a purely non-partisan and unsectarian basis. The name Prospect Union was chosen from the name of the building in which it was located. Classes were formed in a variety of suljects, all taught by students from the University, and lectures were given once a week, usually by a member of the Faculty. Workingmen...
...appears that Mr. Woolley's agent was acting under a misunderstanding when he guaranteed that the address on the Norwegian System would be wholly non-partisan in character. Since this guarantee has been withdrawn, the meeting advertised for Thursday afternoon, March 7, in Sever 11, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the Corporation rule against partisan meetings in college buildings...
...improve the spirit of the game if the game itself is to be saved. You must not be afraid to make bold experiments and sweeping changes in the rules. If you are timid, if you are over-conservative, either from negligence or from fear of losing some temporary partisan advantage, the game, with all its splendid qualities, moral and intellectual as well as physical, will have to go. And on your shoulders will fall in large measure the responsibility for its loss...
...honest intention of the Corporation in their recent action concerning partisan politics can not be questioned. But there are many who feel that a great mistake has been made and that the Corporation has needlessly excluded the best of party politics from the College life...