Word: presents
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...present system is inadequate. 1. This is shown by inefficient administration, exemplified by lack of unity (a) In the cabinet-Bryce, p. 87. (b) Between cabinet and congress-Wilson, p. 234, Int. Rev. VII, 146. (c) In placing responsibility-Inter. Rev. IV, 245. 2. It is shown by inefficient legislation, exemplified in lack of (a) a fixed policy-North American Review, vol. 118, p. 1a; Atlantic, April, 1886. (b) Of open debate-Wilson, p. 90. (c) Of responsibility for legislation-Bryce...
...laws against bribery are greatly strained at each presidential election owing to the system of an electoral college, in which at present one doubtful state, New York, casts the deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...present evils can be adequately reformed without violating the constitution-Pendleton in Cong. Record, 46 Cong. first session...
...Princeton any more than it does at Cambridge, and seems, therefore, thoroughly fair and sportsmanlike. Harvard certainly is not desirous of exacting conditions from Princeton which she is not willing to fulfil her self. Because she cannot be injured by a challenge is no reason for calling her present protest underhanded. It is for the best interests of all colleges concerned that the players of each should be challenged in order that college athletics may be purified as far as possible. As for the unfairness of our protesting four of Princeton's men on purely professional grounds we fail...
...subject of the greatest present interest here is football. The letters have just been received from the Harvard management protesting fifteen men, among them some who have not been in Princeton this year. The protests themselves are harmless, of course, but Harvard's willingness to descend to such low-down measures, thus to go beyond all limits with the hope of crippling the Princeton eleven, has caused much comment here, which is not calculated to flatter Harvard's athletic spirit. In spite of all efforts to prevent her, Princeton will send an eleven to Harvard next Saturday which, although...