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However, one thing this ballot does show rather conclusively, is that Debs, Christensen and Watkins cannot expect to compete with the candidates of the two older parties, and that they do not represent the choice of the educated voter. STRAW BALLOT RESULTS IN SEVENTEEN COLLEGES Harding Cox Debs Christensen Watkins Total Amherst, 255 87 11 9 2 334 Brown, 685 129 10 9 7 840 Colgate, 426 93 8 4 1 532 Columbia, 796 642 172 48 7 1665 Cornell, 747 317 62 18 6 1150 Dartmouth, 976 313 15 7 4 1315 Hamilton...
...volume. To tell the story of de Lesseps, the great Frenchman who dug the Suez Canal but was branded a failure by Mr. Ellis because in his old age he was not so successful in his attempt to construct the Panama Canal, in a little less than seventeen pages is, to say the least, impracticable. Imagine Thackery giving as little space to Becky Sharp's life (Mr. Ellis, by the way, would have considered Becky Sharp a failure of the first order) and you will have some idea of the effect of the condensation in "Fame and Failure...
...costs have closed the courts to all who cannot furnish a bond for fifteen dollars or more. It has been estimated that a third of our population is unable to pay an appreciable sum for attorney's fees. In Boston the Legal Aid Society found that during the seventeen months ending August 31, 1917, the fees required by the state caused a total failure of justice for twenty-three percent of the persons who needed the aid of the courts. Last fall the Carnegie foundation issued a document called "Justice and the Poor" which shows how easy...
Announcement of the complete schedule for the Glee Club has been made by the management. It includes concerts in and around Boston, and, on the spring trip, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, and at Vassar College. Seventeen concerts have been arranged between March 25 and May 27. The complete schedule follows...
...excellence, William C. Spargo. The witty style will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written as a readable memento of the seventeen days journey in which the Crimson cohort with its field marshals invaded the unknown region to the west and for the first time reduced "barbarian" challengers to submission...