Word: decentered
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...slowness with which the work on the Gymnasium addition progresses is exasperating in the extreme. After the University authorities have calmly allowed a large proportion of the students to be deprived of decent bathing accommodations, by refusing to consider any plans for temporary relief, those in charge of the building of the new quarters seem to be conspiring with equal equanimity to put off the completion of the work to the latest possible date. It seems as though the case was urgent enough to warrant the employment of extra men or extra time; but as a matter of fact, there...
...Roosevelt was warmly received. He said that he did not feel it necessary to try to enlist the sympathies of Harvard men in civil service reform. Every Harvard man, by instinct and training, believes in decent politics, and civil service reform is but another name for decency in a certain part of politics...
...cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...
...controversy over the disposition of Jarvis Field is complicated to an extreme. The baseball men maintain, in brief, that to give Jarvis entirely to tennis means, considering this year only, that all decent practice-ground will be taken from the class nines, and, considering future years, that the nine will be put two weeks back of Yale and Princeton in out-of-door practice. Moreover Mr. White, the graduate athletic manager, is willing to take the responsibility of vouchsafing fifteen additional courts on Holmes and Jarvis without disturbance to the diamonds...