Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system, laying especial stress on the power vested in State legislatures to determine the manner of election of presidential electors in their several states. Under the second head he claimed that under the present system the president might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality was claimed by the affirmative as a point in favor...
...debate for the affirmative was continued by J. P. Nields, '89. He said he intended to point out existing evils and show how they could be remedied. He also dwelt at length upon the evil of giving the state legislatures so much power as well as upon minority elections. He said that the proposed system gave every voter a sense of his responsibility, and destroyed the chance of a dark horse...
...Topic of the Day appears a discussion of the development of musical taste among people at large. The article commends the present growing appreciation of music and justly considers it from an educational point of view one of the favorable signs of the times...
...sole piece of verse in this number is entitled "Leap Year." The point is bright and well turned but is couched unfortunately in lines hardly poetic except in form...
...Yale captain declares that the question was one for the convention to settle and should have been brought up before it when it was met. This sudden and decidedly questionable shift on the part of the Yale captain is not without its meaning. It means that in his point of view he is powerless to change the schedule arranged by the convention, and that therefore the Harvard-Yale game must take place in New York. As Harvard cannot play in New York, Yale will have victory without a struggle. The constitution of the association is the only safeguard...