Word: ring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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City government in the United States presents a new battle ground for good government. Cities afford the greatest opportunities and richest harvests to spoils workers. Examples of this are the Tweed and Tammany rings in New York. Dr. Parkhurst has proved that the police, the body which ought to protest, was in direct league with vice. So powerful was the influence of the ring that laws were passed to enable the police to levy blackmail. Theodore Roosevelt is now enforcing these laws...
...honorable Harvard graduate has given to city affairs in New York should awaken enthusiasm for incorruptible and undefiled city government in the mind of every Harvard student. It is said that Philadelphia is suffering at present from an epidemic of corruption and jobbery in municipal affairs; that the governing "ring" is so strongly intrenched, it is well-nigh impossible and hopeless to dislodge its members. The task of exposure, however, has been undertaken. The editor of City and State, Mr. Herbert Welsh, is carring on the municipal crusade in Philadelphia in as dauntless a fashion as that...
...with the sixteen-pound hammer. Cross of Yale also has thrown the hammer 135 ft., and A. Brown of this university has put the shot over forty feet. The Oxford men last year did but little in the events, G. Robertson throwing the hammer from a 30-foot ring 101 ft., and A. F. Mailing putting the shot...
...those of us familiar with Harvard life know to be as untrue as it is demoralizing, has been heard in this new field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than it was 50 years ago. This tendency has greatly disappointed the alumni; and those of us who have been connected with...
...Ring, c. c., Porter...