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...Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard as an institution, without having previously determined by an accurate vote that they have convinced a fair sized minority of us that it should be abolished. It seems not to be asking too much, therefore, that in this instance they permit a referendum to the Seniors...
Sydney R. Wrightington '97, opened the debate for Harvard, showing how Cabinet government will tend to destroy our present system of checks and balances, and thus expose our Government to hasty and impulsive legislation. He said in part...
...when a president has succeeded another, even of the same party. (b) A new President has to reward his supporters. II. Extra terms offer motives for clean administration (a) The President's misdoings are brought to light by the hostile press. III. The refusal of a third term might destroy a definite policy (a) Continuity is essential to successful foreign policy. IV. At times it would be unwise to change the chief executive (a) It might deprive the country of an efficient President. (1) In time of war (Stoughton, No. Am. Rev. 130 p. 227) (2) In time of financial...
...classmates, and too much forced formality. "Let the thoughtless be more thoughtful of others, and the over-sensitics, less so." A live enthusiasm in athletics, in debating, or in any field of action of interest to all alike will also go far to join all classes together and to destroy all unnatural social divisions...
...student's mind.- (x) Examination would be always impending: N. S. Shaler in Atlantic, Ixviii, p. 96 (July, 1891); E. A. Freeman in Nineteenth Century, xxiv, p. 641 (Nov., 1888).- (b) Such increase of work for examinations would be a great evil.- (1) It would tend to destroy originality and individuality: Max Muller, in Nineteenth Century, xxiv, p. 639 (November, 1888).- (2) It tends to destroy the idea of work for work's sake: Shaler...