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...Constitutions, which, by reason of the length of their history, and the influence which they have exercised on statesmen. have most interest for the student of political evolution-those of Rome and England-belong to the same type ; the type usually described as unwritten, because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly...
...attempt to combine pathology and politics has been unsuccessful from the beginning, and while the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Bauer, and Dr. Hazard, a medical member of the Executive Committee, have drawn their salaries regularly, the other professors have been put off from time to time with unwritten promises to pay. This, together with a lordly way the directors had of disregarding any request made by the faculty or students, has led to open revolt. Yesterday eight of the professors and all the students struck, and today the faculty consists if three doctors and five students, whom they have...
...history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly to be hoped that next year the college may offer an additional course, supplementary to History 13, under a competent instructor. If it were a thesis or a seminar course it would be so much the better adapted to the character of the subject...
...apparatus for resting places instead of for its legitimate purpose. Of course it is most likely that such things as these are due to thoughtlessness, and so for a time they may be excused, byt before long, every one who frequents the gymnasium should know by heart the unwritten code which governs its use. In particular no one should occupy any one piece of apparatus more than two or three minutes,-unless we except the chest weights, and in the intervals of exercise one should be careful not to interfere with others. Romping of any Kind should be discountenanced, which...
...more, unwritten, new as spring...