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The next and last piece of machinery in politics is the National Convention. The nomination of candidates is, next to the quadrennial election, the greatest feature of a campaign. Originally, candidates were nominated by a congressional caucus. It was not until after 1831-2, that National Conventions were first held...
A vote was taken on the merits of the debate as conducted by the principal disputants and was decided in favor of the negative. The debate was then thrown open to the house. It was decided to hold a meeting before the end of the year in the form of...
3. Should the Cleveland Democrats hold a Second Convention in New York?
Although the suggestions which the New England Association of Colleges has passed relating to changes in the grammar school course are recommended chiefly for pupils not intending to pursue any higher course of education their ratification by the Harvard Faculty shows them to have some bearing on the question of...
Harvard then proposed playing the two games above mentioned without playing a third game in any case. This seemed to us inadvisable, on account of the probability that the superiority of either team over the other would be left undecided. Being unable to come to any agreement, the convention adjourned...