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American optimism has pointed to education as the remedy, an evolutionary process producing superior and respected public officials. But experience has shown that the educated man does not enter politics; the corruption he sees discourages him even as he casts his ballot. This condition of civic life is no recent development. Aristophanes wrote: "Our sterling townsmen, nobly born and nobly bred,...these we treat with scorn; worthless sons of worthless fathers, yellow scum, these for every task we, choose...
...every hand by a sentiment of antagonism which does not intend to be fair. They see themselves partly reduced to peonage, shut out from labor unions, forced to an inferior status before the courts, made subjects of public contempt, lynched and mobbed with impunity, and deprived of the ballot, their only means of social defense...
Five members of the Board of Overseers and three Directors of the Alumni Association were elected yesterday by postal ballot and by voting in Harvard Hall. The Overseers elected are Dr. William Sidney Thayer '85 of Baltimer, Mr. Charles Allerton Coolidge '81 of Boston, Mr. Samuel Smith Drury '01 of Concord, N. H. Mr. Henry James '99 of New York City, and Mr. Benjamin Loring Young '07 of Weston. The three directors of the Alumni Association elected are Mr. W. Cameron Forbes '92 of Norwood, Mr. Richard B. Wigglesworth '12 of Milton, and Mr. Henry S. Dennison '99 of Framingham...
...third fundamental evil of our old systems of election--and this applies to elections for other officials as well as to those for representatives--is their failure to permit the voter to express his will on the ballot as fully as he pleases so that it can be made effective without regard to how others have voted. Suppose A, B, and C are candidates for one office, and suppose you prefer C, but think he has no chance of being elected. Under our old methods of voting you may not dare to vote for C for fear of "throwing your...
...that is the chief basis, so far as the mechanics of elections are concerned, of the undue power of the "machine" in American politics. The Hare system remedies this weakness. The method is simple: the Hare system permits, though it does not require, the voter to indicate on his ballot which candidates he wants his one vote to count for in case it cannot help elect the candidate marked as first choice, which one he wants it to count for in case in cannot help elect his first choice or his second, etc.; and it provides for the carrying...