Word: shod
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...actively represented in Civic politics and impress itself upon the community as the National parties do, it must have its own agency of expression. It is because of thorough organization and discipline that the National party can afford to ignore the Conscience of the community and to ride rough-shod over its supplications and protests. It is not a bit afraid of numbers if they lack discipline and leadership and ignores them until intoxicated with success it oversteps the limits of prudence and precipitates the cataclysm...
...encouragement from the unparliamentary fashion in which business is presented. This tendency to let things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons for this is, I believe, that we do not accustom...