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...history steadily toward centralization. (Harper's, LXXXV, 240, and Cooley, Principles of Constitutional Law, 27.) B. Interference may be necessary to protect interstate commerce and U. S. mail. 1. Local authorities, as experience proves, not always disposed to do their duty promptly. (a) Chicago strike. (2) Such delays affect peace and happiness of entire nation. C. Dangers of centralization cannot be urged in opposition. 1. It is a choice of evils. (a) Principles of centralization and localization, if carried to excess, alike dangerous. 2. There is less danger in centralization than in administrative disintegration. (a) Failure of Confederation proves...
...bunching hits at the right time. Clarkson deserves a great deal of credit for his excellent work with the stick. Twice he came to bat with a man on third base, and each time he brought in a run, beside making a third hit, which did not affect the score...
...great educational value.- (1) It breaks down old party lines: Amer. Mag. Civics, Vol. 7, p. 199.- (x) Sets people thinking for themselves.- (2) Raises new issues which demand investigation.- (x) Populism has raised questions,- (m) of the Govt. ownership of monopolies which affect the public interest,- (n) of the currency,- (o) of inequalities in the distribution of wealth,- (p) the oppression of the working classes: Pub. Opin. Vol. XVIII...
...proposed system would injuriously affect the aim and direction of work.- (a) It would cause a larger proportion of the work to be done with the examination in view.- (1) The fear and thought of examinations would be more constantly present to the student's mind.- (x) Examination would be always impending: N. S. Shaler in Atlantic, Ixviii, p. 96 (July, 1891); E. A. Freeman in Nineteenth Century, xxiv, p. 641 (Nov., 1888).- (b) Such increase of work for examinations would be a great evil.- (1) It would tend to destroy originality and individuality: Max Muller, in Nineteenth Century, xxiv...
...would have the machinery for settling disputes ready in advance. The second advantage is that the very existence of the court composed of the most eminent jurists of the Anglo-Saxon race and invested with the honor and authority of the two greatest nations of the age must powerfully affect the imagination of the people. Here are two advantages which the negative have not been able to deny. With the permanent court you cannot help getting them; without the court you cannot get them...