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...shared only by the small ruling class ; thus the new voters in England, though teachable, will be ignorant. What is the effect of living under a rigid constitution ? In America the constitution is found in every house and taught in every school, and can be read aloud in seventeen minutes. The consequence of this is that politics tend to become legal, and the Bar has far more importance than in England, where Parliament is omnipotent. Americans often say that their whole political history has been a struggle of strict as against loose constructionists. It is only fair to say that...
Peterhouse College, the oldest of the seventeen colleges in Cambridge University, England, has just celebrated the six hundredth anniversary of its founding. It was founded in the reign of King Edward...
...Yale still retains the championship, which she has held for the past three years, and these are the reasons for her position: First, the score, which according to the referee, was 6 to 4 in Yale's favor at the end of an hour and seventeen minutes. Second, the referee's own opinion, publicly expressed, that, while declaring the game a draw, he considered Yale the victor; and it was his personal desire, conveyed to the Intercollegiate Association, that Yale should be awarded the championship. Third, the opinion of the Harvard delegation-a neutral body-that Yale is champion...
...Harvard Society of Amateur Photographers was organized last night with a membership of seventeen members...
...rendered the attainment of anything better than an average score, a task of extreme difficulty. The present series of matches, in which the second competition was held yesterday, has proved to be more popular than any heretofore held by the club. When the matches were opened there were present seventeen members, whose energy in turning out on such a blustering afternoon is certainly commendable. The score given in the following summary, though not so high as those of the last meeting, are yet creditable when we consider the difficult weather conditions under which they were shot...