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...submerge his abilities as a mere servant to those who choose him is absurd. In-so-far as all his power is derived from the people must he subordinate his personal biases to public opinion, and in-so-far as popular confidence in him has been shown by the ballot is he to exercise his own judgment and initiative...
...that the name Liberal was not a monopoly of any one country, but was universal and easily understood by all. He went on to tell of the Cambridge University Liberal Club, which conducted debates between Englishmen of national reputation upon subjects of current interest after each of which a ballot was held to determine the opinion of the students. The decided in favor of "The League of Nations" and "Disarmament" and deplored "America's Attitude Toward the Peace Treaty". He expressed a hope that the national organization now being formed might soon become international...
According to a recent ballot taken by "The Exonian" of the Phillips Exeter Academy, more men from the graduating class expect to enter Yale than the University for the second time in the history of the school. The New Haven institution will claim 23 of the Class of 1921, while only 21 will come to Cambridge. The increasing popularity of Dartmouth and M. I. T. at the New Hampshire preparatory school is emphazised by the fact that 15 will go to the former and 14 to the latter whereas remaining members in the class Williams will draw 8; Cornel...
...that the state law controlling the election of Overseers be amended,--to the effect that the Governing Boards hereafter have the power to change such elections as they deem necessary. This bill is the result of a long agitation in favor of the election of the Overseers by postal ballot. Under the present system, candidates are suggested by a committee of the Alumni Association. These names are then nominated by postal service and are finally voted upon at Commencement by those alumni who are in Cambridge on that day. The disadvantage of this rule is that many alumni, eligible...
...long-threatened British general strike. Organized labor, headed curiously enough by the miners, has now definitely repudiated the idea, to the great relief of the harrassed public. The reason seems to be not so much dissension in the ranks of Labor as a growing conviction that the ballot is after all the best means of gaining desired ends. The English mind is by nature and inheritance inclined to the use of constitutional means; English Parliamentary methods are well adapted for expressing the will of the people. Labor knows that a decisive victory at the polls will lead at once...