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...namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated...
...Cabinet System tends towards dangerous concentration of power: - (a) The members are chosen from the two legislative branches: Sidgewick's Elements of Politics, 403. - (b) Single assembly in England free to exercise full powers over the constitution: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers, IV. III - (c) The cabinet system has practically deposed Parliament of legislative initiative: ibid...
...Congressional system is a better representation of the popular will: Amer. Hist, Ass 'n Papers IV. III. - (a) It presents better safeguards against demagogism: ibid. 118, A. Lawrence Lowell's Essays on Gov. 31. - (b) It distributes the results of responsibility: Hinsdale's Amer. Gov. 279 - (c) It is at once more conservative and more democratic: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers IV. 118. - (d) It is better adapted to the United States: Lowell's Essays...
...Uniformity can be secured only by constitutional amendment: New Englander, XLIII. 65. - (a) No hope for uniform state laws: Public Opinion, VIII. 106 - Failure of efforts of American Bar Ass'n: Forum, II. 437. - (b) Amendment would not be difficult: Forum...
...Montague Chamberlain, Recorder of the University, has resigned his office, the resignation to go into effect at once. Mr. Chamberlain has served as Ass't. Sec'y. and as Recorder, when the title of the office was changed, for the past five or six years. Mr. Cram, Ass't. to the Dean, will fill Mr. Chamberlain's position for the present...