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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Change of system would improve the personnel of our state legislatures.- (a) Present system directly induces nominations of unfit men for legislature. (1) Bosses nominate such men to help themselves to Senate: Pub. Op. XIV, 393 (Jan. 28, 1893).- (b) Present system prevents defeat of unfit candidates when nomiated.- (1) People dare not vote against them for fear of losing senatorship for their party: Atlantic, LVIII, p, 229 (Aug. 1891); Mitchell in Cong. Rec. April...
...Change of system would tend to take national issues out of state politics.- (a) It would directly destroy the legitimate reasons for voting on national lines for the state legislature: Bryce, op. cit. pp. 100, 567; Atlantic, LXVIII, p. 228 (Aug. 1891).- (b) It would tend to do away with "national voting" in other state contests.- (1) The choice of Senators by the legislatures makes people believe there is a necessary connection between all state and national politics: Nation...
After sketching President Sparks's term of office which began in 1849 and noting his opposition to the elective system, President Eliot concluded by contrasting the quiet state of the University during the fifties with the period of distraction and turmoil which followed during the Civil War. He referred...
WILLIAM A. MULLER, 92 State St., Boston.36...
...Monday.President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston...