Word: vide
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...party lines. (x) The governors have been elected purely on party issues: Example, Capable railroad commissioners in Mass., and poor ones in N. Y. (c) Biennial elections will make the State legislature less effective. (1) It will produce "green" legislatures. (a) Few members re-elected (Vermont legislatures-vide Bridgman, p. 25). (b) Owing to "district" system in Mass., the representatives of other towns must have a chance within ten years. (2) Will produce corrupt legislatures. (a) Will be more subject to corporation influence. (x) Self, not constituents, considered by members. (b) Will be further from control of their constituents...
...devices, however, do not remove the bar that separates Shakespeare and the average man of today. The fact that his plays are written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time...
...lies in better methods in lower schools: Prof. D. Collin Wells in Andover Rev Jan. 1892. - (a). Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...
...bounty is the only practical means of establishing a sugar industry. - (a) It can not be successfully started without some fostering. - (1) Offers no inducement to capital: vide II (a); (2) Profitable beet-raising in this country is still in its experimental stage: Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. - (b) It cannot be successfully started with a protective tariff; (1) A bounty paid by foreign governments to producers on their sugar-exports, tends to counteract the benefit of our tariff: S. V. White, Cong. R., 1889-90, p. 5015; (2) In the past, import duties have failed to create a flourishing sugar...
...gift of nature and not the product of labor, is the inheritance of men, consequently not a fit subject for private appropriation: its site value is created by society and not by the individual owners: Political Science, Vol. XXXVI, p. 348; Barry. "Moloch of Monopolies," Forum, June 1889; vide "Best general references...