Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will assume, as it apears to me one may safely assume, that a majority of those who have thought about the matter at all unite in the conclusion that by amendment the Constitution could be improved...
...Constitution is for us, the living, and not for them or their generation of the dead. So, the vital question is what we believe we need rather than what they believed they and their contemporaries needed; and, if you please to speculate about that, what you think they thought we would or might need...
Even if the Convention were to come and go without a single change in the Constitution, still it would not have been created in vain. A centring of thought upon the Constitution and upon propositions for amendment, and their serious consideration, sure to attend and follow the amendment movement, could hardly fail to be productive of great good. Perhaps but few amendments would be proposed, and fewer still would be ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted...
...trouble with New York, the trouble with practically all of the cities of our land, of which it is the type, is that all, alas, we who live there have thought of them in terms of money, never of men. And as we sowed, so have we reaped. Creat markets, great money centres, our cities have become little else. Even the amusements that are there are just a way of making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source...
...intercollegiate hockey games for the University team will be played with Princeton this evening at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, at 8.15 o'clock. Princeton has played and won two intercollegiate games this season, defeating Columbia and Dartmouth. Considering that Dartmouth defeated Yale last Wednesday, it is thought that this game will be the most difficult of the series. The Princeton team is composed of experienced and skilful men who play well together...