Word: self
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Special conditions have made the government of the Swiss Confederation entirely different from that of any other country. External pressure by stronger powers has welded the country together, patriotism is highly developed, the people have long been accustomed to self-government, and, finally, the general equality of economic conditions renders popular government easy. Party feeling is remarkably small in the country and all its politics are singularly free from bribery and corruption...
France has had a short experience in self-government and the sharp religious divisions of the country have hampered its rulers. At present there are a good representative system, honest elections on the whole and a fair judiciary, but the government is too centralized and still has a certain element of instability...
...James Bryce, M. P., will deliver the fourth of the Godkin lectures on "The Study of Popular Governments" this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Bryce will continue his survey of some of the modern democracies, taking up Switzerland, Britain, and the British self-governing colonies...
...exhibition of the Japanese art of Jiujitsu, a method of self-defence, will be given in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, by an expert Japanese wrestler, Professor Y. Yamashita, instructor of Jiujitsu in Tokio and an assistant. This exhibition, which will be similar to those given by Professor Yamashita in Cambridge last spring, will be open to members of the Union only. After the exhibition the Glee Club will give as informal concert...
...exhibition of the Japanese art of Jiujitsu, a method of self-defense, will be given in the Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 4 o'clock by two expert Japanese wrestlers, Y. Yamashita, instructor in Jiujitsu in Tokyo, and H. Koidzumi. The exhibition, open to members of the University, has been made possible through the courtesy of Samuel Hill '79, as whose guests the two wrestlers have come to this country. A second exhibition will be given in the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, open to members of the Union and their friends...