Word: right
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...candidate has countenanced the formation of a partisan ticket determined to make him first marshal. If at the middle of the Senior year, Seniors do not know the names and deserts of the men prominent enough to be nominated for marshalships, such Seniors have by this ignorance forfeited their right to vote on such an important matter. And the candidate who permits electioneering, and by electioneering I mean the presentation of one candidate's qualifications at the expense of another's, forfeits his right to represent his class. When seven men are nominated for one office, it is manifestly...
...means mistaken for ends. Liberty, which will be considered first, is of two distinct kinds: real liberty and legal liberty. The former is the kind that is of the greatest interest to men. Laws decrease legal liberty but increase real liberty. There are also two kinds of rights: legal and moral; but there are no such things as inalienable rights as maintained by Jefferson, Mill and George. Abraham Lincoln said: "No man has a right to do wrong." Equality is an equal distribution of wealth among the classes of society, and the equal distribution of the means of consumption...
...rapidly as possible from their lives, that they may stand alone and stand strong. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant thing in the secondary school to have these young chaps about you, to feel that you are their leader, and that you can influence and direct them along the right lines...
...student body. You, of course, look upon us as people who lie over on the other side of a barrier. You look upon us as people set in authority, more or less interfering with your occupations in undergraduate days, imposing tasks upon you, which perhaps we have a legal right to do, yet you feel that you would be better if we did not interfere. But in such an attitude you are losing in a large measure that which is finest and best in our colleges. This relation of teacher and pupil in the colleges in not what it ought...
James M. MacKaye '95, spoke on "The True criterion of Right" in the first of his series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" yesterday afternoon. He explained that in the field of industry and mechanics, our civilization is in keeping with our idea of the twentieth century, because scientific methods of Investigation have been applied. In the field of ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy...