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...first place, it is fair to assume that in addition to the twenty-five percent of the class who spread, there are not more than twenty-five per cent who receive so many invitations to spreads that the business of entertaining and being entertained is, for them, exhausting. Granting, for the sake of argument, what is by no means established, that all these men desire a large season of festivity, and that a three-day celebration would be less of a strain than the present one day, we have still to consider the case of the other fifty per cent...
...only efficient remedy for this state of things appears to be the extension of the hours to include evening lectures and recitations. Lectures at six-thirty, seven-thirty, and eight thirty, except Saturdays, would increase the number of hours forty per cent and probably afford adequate relief, for the present at least. This plan, to the average Harvard man, may appear at first sigh monstrous, but there is no reason why it should be so. German and English students are accustomed to evening appointments, and Harvard men should not be disturbed at the idea...
...dangers. (1) The work must be left to professional politicians and bosses. (a) Few of the best men can actively participate. (2) Constantly recurring elections breed neglect of issues. (a) In off-years half the registered voters do not vote in Massachusetts. (b) On the average only 67 per cent. vote in Massachusetts. (c) In representative biennial election states 80 per cent, and over vote. (E. H. Haskell, Biennial Elections, p. 13.) B. They are expensive. (1) $148,000 is spent on a single election. (Mr. Winn, Boston Traveller, Feb. 13.) C. They tend to inefficiency in governement. (1) Governor...
...mock election for President and Vice-President of the United States, which the News held during the past week was entered into with general interest and enthusiasm. Eighteen hundred and forty-five ballots were cast, representing sixty-nine per cent of the entire university enrollment. McKinley received about eighty-one per cent of these votes...
...Duke of Argyll, Our Responsibilities for Turkey; Cont. Review, Sept., Oct., '96; E. A. Freeman, Ottoman Power in Europe; Boston Herald, Feb. 1, Oct. 19-25, '96; Hazell's Manual, 1894, 1896; American Magazine for Civics, Oct. '96; Forum, June, '96; C. W. Eliot, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. '96; Nineteeth Cent., Oct. '96; Justin McCarthy, N. A. Review, Sept. '96; Laveleye, Balkan Peninsula; D'Avril, Traites...