Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rumored that Dr. Noah Porter of Yale College thinks of attending the Beecher-Moulton church council, but it is not yet known whether Captain Cook will grant permission. The matter is under consideration. - Providence Press...
...Whether this popular hatred of anything which savors of oligarchy is or is not desirable depends upon the object of the class elections. If this object is to elect the men who may at the moment chance to be most popular or most widely known among their classmates, the purely democratic elections which we have this season witnessed attain it with comparative certainty. If, on the other hand, the object is to elect to each office the person best calculated to fill it with credit, it is by no means so certain that democracy should be the leading characteristic...
...result of the practice of this theory - whether observed in national or in college politics - is not all that can be wished for. It cannot be denied that offices are frequently assigned to persons totally unfit to hold them; and while it would be folly for a student to venture to advance his opinions upon the proper government of a great nation, an expression of his theory of the proper constitution of a college class is by no means so ridiculous...
...seems, then, to be generally allowed that an agreement upon certain nominations is absolutely necessary to a satisfactory election, and the only dispute is in regard to the manner in which these nominations are to be made, - whether by regularly organized bodies, or by knots of individuals hastily gathered together for the purpose...
...wreaths which crown the finest orator, the best writer, and the champions in Greek and mathematics. We have never said, in so many words, that we were too big for such amusements; but that is what our actions have said for us. I have no means of knowing whether the other colleges feel offended by all this; but, if the tone of our papers displeases them, there is no reason why this tacit assertion of superiority should not do so as well...