Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually authority asserted itself. Gradually, the General's personal likeableness was felt. Politicians Quezon and Osmena, furious because of the diminished power of their rhetoric, could not prevent it. So they began to flood the cables with anti-Wood gossip. They made local scenes which in far off Washington looked bad. They came personally to Congress with petitions railing against the General. Two years ago President Coolidge told them it was useless, told them in effect that it was impossible for them to make any sober individual in Washington believe that Governor General Wood was a tyrant, knave or fool...
Indeed the Passaic strike is a glaring example of the extremes to which police power may go. With no real provocation to offer as reason, the right of free speech and free assembly, guaranteed in both the constitutions of the nation and of New Jersey, has been denied not only to strikers, but to reputable lawyers and pacific clergymen. That such a situation can exist, even under protest, would rather suggest there are, still extant, reasons for wondering at the reflection of function to which democratic government has attained...
...curriculum of the "pass" man is designed to give him a respectable quantum of liberal information, that of the "honors" man, to develop his maximum power of original and constructive thinking. While both classes of students come in contact with and are guided by the tutors, the "honors" men meet their tutors much more frequently and intimately than the "pass...
...outcry of 1922, when Harvard considered barring Jews. For what purpose could the admissions committee want the photographs if not to discover how many Lipskys and Finkelsteins were concealed under names like Jones and Smith? And private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, etc., asked to know what the discretionary power would do if not deprive them of automatic Harvard entrance-certificates for their seven high-stand men each year...
Religious or racial discrimination was stoutly denied, however, by Harvard officials. And the discretionary power was explained this way: It was desirable to be able to admit high-stand students on certificate, not only from the eastern private schools that point specially for the college board examinations, but from schools in the South and West as well, where the college board is unknown either as a criterion or a cramp...