Word: pres
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...powers of the Speaker have steadily increased till from moderator he has become despot.- (a) Clay imposed his personality upon House.- (b) Stevenson, 1827-35, made House subservient to Pres. Jackson.- (c) Blaine, 1869-75, used office to further political ambitions.- (d) Carlisle, 1883-89, made himself real source of all legislation by refusing recognition to members he did not favor.- (e) Reed, 1889-91.- (1) Overrode minority summarily.- (2) Increased power of chair by new rules...
...PEIRCE, Pres...
...Permanent athletic relations are not for the best interests of the student body.- (a) Athletics consume too much time: Prof. Taussig, Grad. Mag. III. P. 300; Pres. Eliot's Report for 1894, pp. 16-18.- (x) Summer training.- (b) Predominance of athletics injurious beyond college.- (1) Exeter troubles: CRIMSON, Dec. 18, 1894.- (c) Lead to bad blood.- (1) Unfairness must be met with unfairness, or grim forbearance, until alliance ends.- (d) Not for the best interests of Harvard's prestige and good-fellowship with other colleges.- (1) Such relations make her dependent upon an alliance.- (2) The University's stand...
...Such intervention is contrary to our long established policy: Pres't. Grant's Spec. Mess. to Cong. 13 June 1870: in Wharton, Digest p. 387.- (a) Our course in respect to Spanish American Republics.- (b) Our forbearance in the last Cuban struggle...
...GRIEK, Pres...