Word: unite
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Freshman classes that play their football game with Yale at New Haven are denied one of the best factors in bringing the class into something like a definite unit in the early months of its career. There is no denying the fact that a Freshman class gains considerably more by standing on the side lines at a game with the Yale freshmen on Soldiers Field than by anything else until the first officers are elected and the class takes its place as an organization with the other classes. The class of 1912 is denied this opportunity but a substitute...
...cases of sudden change of rule, the people must go through a period of tutelage, for they cannot be expected to be transformed from a state of absolute subjection to entire self-government at a single step. We try to develop the individual unit, to educate and civilize the people according to western ideas of civilization, and in the end to leave them absolutely self-governing. What the Philippine Islands need, is not new laws, not financial assistance, not a change of policy, but merely the removal of all tariffs. Up to the present time all administration has been along...
Seniors and Freshmen are reminded of their class pictures. Nothing is more interesting as a memento of undergraduate days than a photograph of the class, which, despite strong tendencies to the contrary, in still in every way the unit of College life. Every man should be present promptly at the hour stated...
...means more to them than the book learning that they get; athletics, social pursuits and friendships all go to make up what is known as a college education. Harvard College wants to be more than an integral part of a great university; it wants to be treated as a unit, to be dealt with from a different point of view, to have its own rights and privileges, apart from the other Harvard schools, of which we are all proud, but which we hesitate to accept as composed of loyal Harvard men. So long as the Law school is made...
...fourth cause that he assigns for failure is that "the city taxpayers have lost control over the expenditures of the tax money they have paid in." "Fifthly, the unit of area for taxation is so defined geographically that a just system of taxation has in many cases become impossible, and great wastes in the various branches of the city administration are inevitable." One of the most important causes is that "the practices of corporations that need public franchises have been often corrupt." And finally, "legislative remedies for these evils have been hindered by a false theory that a city ought...