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* Article II and the 12th Amendment. The election has been thrown into the House twice. In 1800 Jefferson was elected in a tie with Burr; in 1824 John Quincy Adams was elected over Andrew Jackson, Crawford and Clay. When Hayes was elected over Tilden, there was not a case of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bloom | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

The change contemplated in the suggested amendment is entirely one of membership, but that is the desired starting point. With the College represented as it now is nothing can be expected. The system can be compared only to the "rotten borough" one of eighteenth century England. Except that while in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LICK AND A PROMISE | 2/28/1924 | See Source »

In accordance with the Constitution of the Council amendments may be carried by a two-thirds vote of the entire Council, after three week's notice of the proposed amendment has been given to the Student Body. At the meeting last night the Executive committee of the Council proposed a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADICAL STEPS TAKEN BY STUDENT COUNCIL | 2/28/1924 | See Source »

Dr. Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: High Explosion | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

A first prize of $100 and a second prize of $25 have been offered by Mr. Richard Sears, Harvard '91, for the best oral argument on the question, "Are the safeguards surrounding the amendment of the Constitution of the United States sufficient?" The contest is open to all undergraduates in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFERS 2 PRIZES FOR DEBATE ON CONSTITUTION AMENDMENTS | 2/20/1924 | See Source »

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