Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mugwump politics are the politics of those who refuse to vote always in accordance with party ties; Nation XXXVIII 201, XXXIX, 21, 41; Bryce...
...Great parties cannot present at each election exactly the combinations of principles agreeable to each voter, and either he must compromise and join one side or the other on the issues as a whole or he must waste his vote...
...Hence voters cannot afford to be independent of parties and to change their party vote on single issues. a. If they ever believed in the general principles of their old party they are unlikely to find themselves in as full accord with its opponents, though heartily with them in some particular. b. They loose their political influence by exerting it in too many directions. c. They eventually gain the enmity of both parties and are tolerated only in the times of necessity. d. They way to reform a party is to stay in it and help it to correct...
...well attended meeting of the freshman class of Yale Tuesday evening, a unanimous vote was taken to challenge the Harvard freshmen to a boat race, and the following letter was sent, which was received yesterday...
Violation of this rule debars a student from all further participation in public athletic contests, whether confined to students of the University or not, until he is reinstated by vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports...