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...Where is the Constitution, and who are the select few that wrote it? Perhaps it is not, as was granted above, such a fine document. At least it would be interesting to know something about it. The machine in urban polities is possible because the voters are ignorant and needy, and because those who should vote, are indifferent and don't. In this case the ignorance of the members of the Class, is not their fault. They have never had a chance to see the Constitution. The indifference is their fault, and this may be also properly considered an appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Class Constitution | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

...members of the Class of 1932; the eight juniors are as follows: Sidney Cohen '33, H. C. Hatfield '33, W. A. Huppuch '33, Richard Inglis, Jr. '33, K. W. McMahan '33, Peter Shuebrook '33, A. E. Taylor '33, and B. A. Winter '33. Next year this group will select the members from the Classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY DAY OF ANNUAL PHI BETA KAPPA EXERCISES | 12/1/1931 | See Source »

Inquisitor-I ask you whether you will be good enough to say to the committee whether or not the fact that you believe they did have influence was a circumstance that led you to select them. (Bickering from one of the committee's Democratic members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Al Smith's Friend's Firm | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...hardly necessary to set forth in detail here all the reasons why students should select this voluntary course. Many of them are axiomatic and self-evident. Whatever else the purposes of a college education may be, one of them is to develop the reasoning powers of the student. To learn how to think, and to think accurately and rapidly, is one of the hardest tasks in the world, so says a writer on debating, while to expound the conclusions of one's thinking to an untrained audience so clearly that the audience understands the speaker's point of view...

Author: By Harvard . and Albert A. Gleason, S | Title: A. A. GLEASON PROPOSES A PERMANENT HOME FOR THE DEBATING COUNCIL | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Last week's elections cleared the way for next year's presidential campaign. Twelve solid months of national politics stretched ahead without break or turn. Down the perspective of time stood the following major political events in sequence: i) meetings of the two national committees this winter to select next year's convention cities;? 2) preferential primaries in 20 States, beginning early next spring to instruct delegations to national conventions for this or that presidential candidate; 3) covert and continuous scrambles in all States to control convention delegations; 4) a Republican national convention in mid-June at which Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Straightaway | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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