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...floor leader, Nicholas Longworth of Ohio was elected viva voce with only a few scattered "Naes" sounding. Expected opposition from Representative Graham of Illinois did not materialize?the reason being that a compromise had been effected beforehand by which Mr. Graham withdrew and his group, "the Middle Western farmers," received a predominance on the all-important Steering Committee, which dictates what legislation shall come before Congress...
Compromis is an excellent and necessary thing in the ordinary work of legislation. In an issue like the present each side is fain to consider a compromise as a compromise with the devil. The only thing the would make Senator Lodge desert the American flag is the voce of the people. Only the voce of the people can turn Senator Hitchcock from the cause of humanity. But the voice of the people says to each of these men different things...
Full details are given of the "Harvard Trip to California" and there is a sensible article on "The Clubs and the University," which does not refer to the local sotto voce organizations, but to the graduate Harvard Clubs. The writer, J. D. Phillips '97, advocates the setting aside of a day when various Alumni Associations and clubs shall come to Cambridge to visit the University at work. He wants the day to be academic in its nature and only casually athletic or social. Dean Hurlbut has an article on "Conduct and Scholarship of the Year" taken from his annual report...
...Each office shall be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, and votes cast for persons not so nominated shall not be counted. No motion to close the nominations shall be in order until a fair chance has been given to each voter to make his nomination...
...Each office shall be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk and no votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. No motion to close the nominations shall be in order until a fair chance has been given to each voter to make his nomination...