Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...junior exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand...
...doubt there are some who think that taking an informal vote for President is a departure from the sphere of the student to that of the politician, and others who regard it as only time thrown away. Both opinions seem erroneous, and arise from the same cause, namely, failure to look at the case in the proper light. It should not be forgotten that a representative government is such only so long as the whole people are represented, the intelligent and good as well as the ignorant and bad, and that, as a small force is not unfrequently...