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...leading article, "A Need of Newspapers," by Mr. Eliot Lord, is an argument in favor of the foundation at Harvard of a department of journalism, with "an editor of high reputation as a professor and a competent city editor as an assistant professor." The writer believes that the "primary schools of journalism" should be moved from the rooms of the daily papers to quarters in the universities." We believe that the time is coming when the rapidly growing demand for training is journalism will have to be met. Suggestions such as those made by Mr. Lord will greatly help...
VIII. There is no argument for a government post-office system which does not apply with equal force to a government telegraph system.- Nation, 37, p. 90; Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements," p. 66; Jevons, Methods of Social Reform...
...receive, to a large extent, our material for our athletic teams. It is for our own interest, therefore, as well as for theirs, that a cup be offered. The success of the plan this year in foot-ball leaves no doubt as to its advisability, and is an argument also, for the offering of similar cups in other sports. Base-ball as well as foot-ball, should be stimulated, and there is no better plan for accomplishing this end than the one adopted this fall. Harvard athletics must be sustained in every legitimate way, and this, certainly, is open...
...under the present system the president might be and has been elected by the minority of voters. Another point made under this heading was that according to the present system many voters were virtually disfranchised in states returning a large majority in either direction. Under the third head, the argument that the present system would destroy state individuality was claimed by the affirmative as a point in favor of the proposed change...
...Rich then closed his argument by proposing a system of election, wherein the country should be divided into electoral districts and each elector chosen separately, to vote separately, not by states as at present. The proposal of this system he claimed to be a very strong argument for the negative...