Word: validity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...however, is by ex-Governor Guild, "Should Men Join Political Parties?" Governor Guild argues that every man should be an active politician and that it is only by means of party that practical results can be obtained. In so far as the arguments concern the active politician they are valid, but Mr. Guild has not noticed or does not mention that the old-fashioned party man has passed away and that the average man now votes with out side and then again with the other to a degree hitherto unknown...
...account of the Harvard-West Point football game at West Point tomorrow, the New York Central Railroad will issue special round trip tickets between New York and West Point, at $1.25 each, the usual price of a single ticket. They will be valid only on the day of the game, but may be used on all trains stopping at West Point or Garrison. The ferry charge is included in the price of the ticket for those who go by way of Garrison...
Although the football season is still young, it is not too early to express a hope for improvement in our football songs. There is no valid reason why our singing at the large games should be inferior to that of many of our opponents who are far behind us in numbers. Yet we have learned by experience that we have little cause for pride in this respect...
...however, the business of the Athletic Committee to drive students into the class room or to devise methods to keep them at work; and it is hardly a valid criticism of the regulation, that a student is not thereby prevented from spending his leisure in some other way which may equally hinder him from study, or from embracing the many opportunities for other serious occupations. It might similarly be maintained that the restrictions of "probation" are useless because they do not prevent a student from spending his time in various other unchecked diversions. That rule implies chiefly that the University...
Another objection is that the women will not be suitably gowned for a dusty walk or the crush at the bridge, and this is a valid objection; for it is likely to prevent many from attending, and any lack of co-operation on the part of members of the class arising form objection to the plan must inevitably defeat the purpose of a class exercise...