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Yesterday the Boston vox populi exercised its quadrennial function and spoke out in favor of Mr. Curley for Mayor. Not entirely encouraging, this declaration; the believer in democracy may well question the practicability of government by the people...
...Harvard persists in its spirit of academic reserve, of stalwart refusal to admit that the "vox populi" is always the "vox Dei". It has at all times been a leader in American education because it has sought the Truth, and not because it has followed popular clamor. It has insisted on its right to set its own standards, no matter how defective they may have been; and in its students it has recognized the creative power of the individual and the small group as against the control of the crowd. The West may stand for that vague thing we call...
...Populi, Mandolin Club...
...Mandolin Club. "Vox Populi March...
...claims as to her services to the game of foot-ball in this country the Princetonian is still more emphatic: It (the Courant) admits and deplores the fact that Yale is considered, by "the many," to win her games "by sheer force and systematic evasions of the rules." Vox populi, vox dei. "The many" have not been deceived. The editor goes on to state, that Yale has done more for foot-ball than any other college in the land. We always thought that Harvard introduced the game; but, perhaps, there has been some mistake. That Yale's rules for stopping...