Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will appear. It is not as good as usual. The editorials lack even their accustomed quality of entertainingness and as far as we know, they make claim to nothing more. The first one it is true, has a good object in view, while the second is obviously a last resort of a hard-pressed editor...
...collection contains about 13,000 volumes and its original cost was something over $100,000. Mr. Moak spent thirty years in gathering it and took great pains in its collection. It has full federal reports; reports of every court of New York state, reports of every court of last resort in the various states, comparatively complete Australian and New Zealand reports, full Canadian reports and complete British reports from the time of the year books to the present day. In addition there is a large collection of statutes and a particularly fine library of text books. It is admitted...
...under civil service rules. - (1) The incentive to political activity is removed. - (2) Their tenure of office depends on their efficiency. - (b) In the case of those still under the spoils system the evil would be removed. - (1) The incentive to political activity still remains. - (2) The official would resort to underhand means. - (3) The system proposed furnishes no guarantee of efficiency. - (c) The extension of the civil service rules to these men would be the only adequate remedy for the present evils...
...Proper election would improve the character of the Senate: - (a) At present able Senators are obliged to resort to jobbery to reelection; e. g. Sherman of Ohio in 1891. (b) Popular election would stop this jobbery by removing election from control of the machine...
...minds where to spend their next summer vacation may find it worth their while to read the two articles by Messrs. Sandys and Anderson, (both illustrated by A. Hencke) the first, "Through Muskoka Maroel Lands," on one beautiful spot in Canada, and the second, "Nova Scotia as a Summer Resort," on another. Unfortunately each author is so positive that the place which he describes is the most beautiful portion of the continent, that anyone who is now in uncertainty will probably find his problem still harder to decide...