Word: righte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That the right of every man to rule is born in him and is not given by one man is the first letter in our political alphabet. Therefore it is that we have no right to surrender our conscience, our responsibility, our duty, or, in fact, any one of these three attributes which were born within us. The comparative right to rule by intrinsic merit is decided not by one man, but by the opinion of the majority of our fellow citizens, and the power of this majority is not that merely of the majority over the minority. It lies...
...events which led to the establishment of that body. There are also scores of students who have never stopped to think of the evils which attend the system of private "tutoring" as it exists at Harvard. To all such students we recommend these editorials. We have now the right to expect in the Monthly a continuation of the good work it has done in its attempts to build up an enlightened public opinion among students...
...entitled "The Watuppa Paid Cases" and is contributed conjointly by Samuel D. Warren, jr., and Louis D. Brandeis. The decision of the Massachusetts court in the controversy between the town of Fall River and a number of manufacturers whose mills lie upon the Quequechan river, as to the right of the former to use the water of the Watuppa ponds, the source of the Quequechan, is reviewed and criticized. The article is notable for the carefulness and clearness of statement. The second article, "Statutory Changes in Employers' Liability," by Marland C. Hobbs, examines the origin of the common law doctrine...
...will be not only instructive but interesting, so that all who can, should avail themselves of this opportunity to hear Mr. Lawton. When either the University or some club provides us with a chance to hear a man distinguished in any branch of learning, it is only fair and right that the students should show an appreciation of the favor by their presence in numbers large enough to fill the hall, and then there would be no need to throw open the doors to outsiders in order to get an audience. As the seats are reserved and tickets...
...show that he is back and to explain the cause of his absence. These rules have caused much unfavorable comment among the students, but this comment seems immature. The length of vacations is fixed, not by the faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length...