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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there have been constitutional checks but they have been superficial. Such provisions as that no member of Congress shall hold office and that of the advice and consent of the Senate on all appointments mean nothing. Our real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable...
...than is is served at Memorial. The lunch served today at Memorial costs, by the Foxcroft bill of fare, exactly 40 cents; the Memorial man being limited by his appetite alone, the Foxcroft man by the size of the orders placed before him. The new directors, I believe, should seek to find some solution to the overcrowding, rather than to place the whole trouble on the shoulders of the steward...
...that it appears that the members of the Corporation Committee have never wished to give up the Tree exercises but only to modify their objectionable features, does it not seem that a great deal of breath has been wasted, not only wasted but wasted unbecomingly? The Corporation does not seek to attack the interests of the student body. It is made up of men who by word and deed have shown that they have undergraduate interests at heart, and is not respect and duty to his elders one of the first qualities of every gentleman, above all of any Harvard...
...said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that...
...rather than (1) dallying with international bimetallism. (2) Maintenance of the present costly and unstable currency system. (3) Tariff legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. (4) A jingo foreign policy. IV. In voting for Palmer and Buckner gold Democrats seek to form the nucleus of a solid organization, (A) by being recognized as a nation party, (B) by obtaining control of state organizations, (C) for the interests of sound finance, (D) for opposition to McKinleyism...