Word: viz
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last objection I think the suggestion in your editorial of Saturday's issue furnishes a complete rejoinder, viz, that the members of the class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it can hardly be that that body intend to pronounce judgment on a difference of such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered...
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There are three prizes offered for essays in the field of political science, viz., the Toppan, Sumner, and Bennet prizes. The subjects for any of these three prizes may, within the limitations set down in the Catalogue, be chosen by each competitor, subject to the approval of the Committee on Prizes in Political Science. The proposed subject must be submitted to the Committee by March...
...objections to annual elections, viz.: expense and trouble, are without weight. (A) Expense is very slight. (1) Only four cents per capita spent by the state on its an ual election. (G) Bradford's speech of Oct. 13, 1896). (B) Trouble is wisely taken (E. E. Hale's Speech at Faneuil Hall, Oct. 23, 1896) Government by the people is founded upon trouble for the people. (a) Educational influence is great. (x) Keeps state issues before the public. (y) "Political judgment grows by exercise." Bridgeman...
...results of the adoption of these two amendments, viz., biennial elections, will be harmful. A. Biennial elections will weaken local self-government. (1) Will lessen the power of the people. (a) They can rebuke representatives only half as often. (2) Politicians will look upon Massachusetts politics solely from the the point of view of national party supremacy. (Speech of E. E. Hale, Oct. 23, 1896). (a) State elections are thus made subordinate to national. (x) Elections will be on national issues. (y) Offices will be filled with reference to national politics: Examples, Governor Powers, notorious for his acquirement of State...