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...change is ineffective. - (a) Mere right of debate would not enable cabinet to direct legislation: Snow, 123; Morrill, 424; Von Holst, Const. Law, Section 26. - (b) Information about the affairs of departments would not be more available. - (1) Cabinet officers would be under no compulsion to impart all their knowledge; Nation, XVI, 234. - 12) They could not be expected to furnish detailed information on demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good...
...change is contrary to the spirit, if not to the letter, of the constitution. - (a) Cabinet was intended to furnish advisors to President, and not to become a party machine; Von Holst, Const. Law, 91. - (b) The executive, with cabinet, was not intended to be allied to Congress, but to be a a check or balance; Thayer, 446; Hare, I, 180. - (c) It is fundamental in a democracy that the people should move the government, not that any body of men should control legislation; Snow...
Professor Herman E. Von Holst, has consented to leave Freiburg University to accept an appointment to the chair in History. He is a statesman as well as historian, being a member of the Upper house in Germany; he is also an honored fellow in the Prussian Academy of Sciences...
...next theme in German 4 is due March 15. The subject is, "Idhaltsgabe von Torquato Tasso...
...Building for 1890-91. From William W. Goodwin, $25. 83 to be added to the income of the Charles Haven Goodwin Scholarship Fund for 1890-91. Among other gifts acknowledged by the Corporation is the new gate-way at the Cambridge St. entrance to the College Yard, from George von L. Meyer...