Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...following amendment to Art. VI. Sec. 1 of the Constitution was then proposed by Mr. Wetmore to be voted on at the next meeting, - That the power to depose the captain of the University Crew for decided incompetence or neglect of duty shall be also vested in the University Crew of the year immediately preceding his term of office...
...turn honoring it, in class offices, by their advocacy of a thoroughly open election. The most charitable explanation, though it be but a partial one, is seen in the exceptional constitution of that class; with its many superficial lines of distinction, the spirit of the clique, jealous of every power that could be construed into a right, was so stimulated as to overrun class interests, even. The class was, therefore, unfitted to take up and use to its own advantage a system of elections that demand, as primarily essential to its success, subordination of all clique and cabal interests...
THERE seems to have been quite a sudden change in the political sympathies of Harvard about the beginning of the Revolution, showing either that those in power in the College had remarkable powers of dissimulation, or were a long time being roused to an appreciation of their situation...
...fearful is thy power...
Escape from thy dread power...