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...given bind the highest magistrate in a civil government?" John Adams' subject was (1758), "Is civil government absolutely necessary for men?" Other questions, within ten years of the beginning of the revolution, were, "Is an inferior magistrate obliged to execute the orders of his superior, when they would plainly subvert the commonwealth?" "Are the people the sole judges of their rights and liberties?" "Is a government tyrannical in which the rulers consult their own interest more than that of their subjects?" "Is a government despotic in which the people have no check on the legislative power?" To the question, "Does...
...sensation in New York politics. An article recently appeared in its columns, headed "The College Committee : How the Alpha Delta Phi, Being Scholars in Politics, as Set Forth in the World, Made Four a Majority of Eight," professing to be an expose of the designs of this fraternity to subvert the government of the State to its own interests. The Times pricks the World's bubble in one of its characteristic satirical editorials, headed "The Great Conspiracy...
...sole end and aim of all our college sports. It is true that by success in this way a general interest in all these things can best be fostered; but, when we sacrifice to this aim all the better uses of college sports and very nearly subvert the fundamental principle of amateur sports and pastimes, which seeks to afford to the greatest number the freest chance for exercise and sport, then it may justly be doubted whether the means justify the ends. Our colleges cannot afford to let all active interest and participation in athletics fall entirely into the hands...
...open to examination. I confess that I regard it somewhat askance. It is a query whether or no a college gains by enlarging indefinitely its curriculum. The old American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently...