Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...school is organized in several departments with an educational director and departmental chairman at the head of each, and a staff of instructors under him. These instructors are chosen from among members of the University, largely Law School men for their especial fitness for their work. As a rule men are secured who teach in the evening, school a subject they are working on in the daytime...
About 50 men reported for cross-country running yesterday. The work was light consisting merely of a walk around Fresh Pond. It is probable that light work will be the rule until the arrival of Coach Shrubb on Saturday...
...whole batted for .314, a decrease of 60 points from the average of the 1911 team. Captain Porter, who led in 1911 with .371, was again the leader of the regular players, but with only an even .300 mark. Bartholf, playing in eleven games, proved the exception to the rule that pitchers are invariably poor batters by averaging .384. Of the veterans, Reeves alone improved his 1911 mark materially, raising from .170 to .279. Averages. Player, Games A. B. Hits P. C. F. H. Clark, 2 2 1 .500 Bartholf, 11 26 10 .384 Milholland, 3 3 1 .333 Potter...
...remember well an upright client who said to me once that in business one could not help cracking the Golden Rule, but he tried not to break it. He was in the main managing his own property and that of his family, and he would have found it much harder to live up to his principles if he had been conducting his affairs for the benefit of a multitude of stockholders with whom he never came into contact, and to whom he could, therefore, not explain his position...
...minority votes mean minority rule, we have minority rule under the present system. For only a small minority of the people vote, since women and children are barred. The theory is that those who do vote represent the people as a whole. So it is with the initiative and referendum; those who do vote represent the whole people. The initiative and referendum do not introduce the evil of minority rule. But they do introduce positive benefits. They raise the calibre of the legislators. When corruption is taken away from our legislatures, better men will seek to enter them. Moreover...