Word: cases
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...spends and others spend for him. The advantage of this is that candidates will enter the struggle on equal terms. Furthermore election contests are to be decided in court and not by legislatures; in court a man can get the best possible hearing, and is bound to have his case decided on its own merits, a thing legislatures do not always do. The penalty for bribery is increased to a great extent so that a candidate returned unfairly can be unseated and a new election held...
Another necessary reform is the Civil Service Reform, to obtain which many believe all that is needed is to enforce the law. But this is not the case. Civil Service Reform so far has touched only unimportant positions, clerkships in post offices, inferior places in custom houses, etc. What is needed is a reform which will be applicable to positions which require executive ability; to positions such as United States marshals, collectors of customs, and postmasters of all degrees. The president has to appoint three officers per-day to positions in various parts of the Union, and naturally cannot...
...sentiment expressed in the first part of the Princeton letter published today is obviously so unfair as to need little comment, and yet it may be well for us to state the case as it actually is. There is now a genuine and laudable effort making to exclude professionalism from college athletics. As a first step in this movement it has seemed necessary that all the colleges in the league be required to furnish certificates that the members of their athletic teams are bona fide members of their college. In accordance with this rule Harvard has sent to Princeton...
...remains the plain fact that scores of students are living about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...Amelia E. Barr. The history of Abraham Lincoln by Nicolay and Hay is rapidly drawing to a close. The present number describes the second inaugural and the last battle of the war. The other articles in the number are "Adventures in Eastern Siberia," by George Kennan; "The Case of John Van Arsdale," by Ernest Crosby, and "The Newness," by Robert Carter...