Word: plan
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Although many changes and alterations of universal suffrage have been suggested, these are not advantageous because this principle lies at the bottom of our system of government. One way to render this plan more efficient is to reduce the number of nominees for whom one man may vote. On every ballot now presented there is a long list of men, many of whom are in all probability entirely unknown to the voter. If there are but five men to be elected, the voter is sure to be able to choose more competently. This system has proved successful wherever...
...this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates, a group of men at the head of the city government, and a plan by which the voter can best be enabled to make an intelligent choice
...Baldwin will speak on "The Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition and Plans for Future Polar Research," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which will be illustrated by stereopticon views, will be open only to members of the Union. Mr. Baldwin will explain his new plan for reaching the North Pole by starting from the Behring Sea and drifting with the current across the open water around the Pole into the Greenland...
...look after the welfare of the whole undergraduate body. It is thus in the best position to make a selection which shall be for the interests of the team to be managed and at the same time entirely fair to all competitors for the position. Moreover, if such a plan were adopted, the existing managers of teams would be relieved of the unenviable burden of responsibility for the selection. Finally, there would result a uniform method of selection applicable to all teams and continuing from year to year...
...record of the Carlisle team during the past few years has been interesting. Their schedule is invariably the longest of any of the big teams and a journey to the Middle West to close their season has no terrors for them. This season they plan to go as far west as Colorado, playing several times on the way out. At the end of last season they were ranked high and but for a defeat by Princeton they would have been very close to the top. This year, they have not been beaten and have made the unusual record of scoring...