Word: term
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...surprised, when I opened the last Crimson, to come upon a piece entitled "Class Politics." The term is so inappropriate to any state of things that should exist at College, and so suggestive of a tone of feeling from which it is hoped Harvard has emancipated herself, that I was not unprepared for the disapproval I soon began to feel in reading the article. As I continued to read, however, disapproval deepened into indignation. The question of open elections no longer seemed an unsettled issue. That reform was not the modification of an institution for the sake of convenience...
...assail open elections, would undoubtedly possess much of the popularity imputed to it if there were about it an air of greater plausibility. As it stands, it cannot fail to interest the Junior Class in their preparation for the semiannuals as an example of ambiguity of the middle term. Such an interpretation as is given to "greatest happiness" is enough to cause Bentham to turn in his grave. The position which this fallacy about government is intended to support is an entirely unwarranted assumption. It asserts that the class at large is incapable of settling on suitable men for Class...
These societies differ in character. In some the literary element is predominant; in some, the social. The most prominent class-offices differ in like manner. For some, marked literary ability is required; for others, that social ease which, for want of an English term, we call savoir faire. It is but reasonable to suppose that the men who possess these characteristics to the most marked degree, and who are therefore best fitted to fill the offices for which these characteristics are required, will, as a rule, be members of the societies whose object is to promote these very characteristics...
...same spirit which nine centuries ago gave rise to the term Iconoclasm exists to-day, and the word which was applied literally then is now figuratively expressive of the tendencies of the century. Mournfully and persistently its existence is deplored when our images and ideals are fast falling shattered around us. Civil order has prevented its exhibition from taking a violent form, but it has not the less influenced character and modified institutions...
...ability and fitness, but on artificial considerations, as society standing or what not. It is to be observed, however, that so long as societies exist of such size as to divide the class into large sections, and which can be considered as rivals in the feeblest meaning of that term, so long, presumably, society feeling will color the elections. And so far as this is the generous competition of each society to produce the greatest number of suitable candidates to draw the suffrages of the class, who shall say that this artificial stimulus in eliciting the best...