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...main beam and extending back to the boat house. With all these holes and patches the spot was naturally a very weak one. Of course under ordinary circumstances the structure could support the weight it had to sustain, but on this occasion the crowd of a hundred or more directly above it proved too much for it and it gave away. These conditions and several theories of the direct cause of the accident present themselves. In the first place the gradual sinking of the pile into the soft mud may have left the whole weight of the balconies resting...
...leading statesmen to do so, has not been such as to wholly justify the assertion. That such is the state of affairs is no doubt accounted for in part by the fact that a system of indirect political suffrage prevails, which is based upon property qualifications. Whether direct or indirect suffrage is best for that country is, and for many years has been, an absorbing question with her statesmen...
...argued by the opponents of direct suffrage that history with the exception of the United States offers no example of its success with the single exception of the United States. But in the latter country it may be said that the conditions are vitally different from those of Germany, and because it has proved a success in the one is no reason why it should in the other. For instance in France direct personal suffrage involved the country in a ruinous revolution. In England no one claims that by a system of limited suffrage the political freedom of the people...
...these unions they soon obtained from the state privileges and honorable rights, especially that of an independent jurisdiction, and the right of granting academic degrees. The students of that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent who, for the most part, were placed under the superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs...
...given to the class winning the most victories, would arouse a healthy class feeling. Each class would do it sutmost to bring forward all available candidates in the effort to win this trophy. This rivalry between the classes would increase the number of entries and have a direct bearing upon the success of all the meetings of the association. It would benefit the H. A. A. in somewhat the same manner, although in a modified degree, as the class races benefit the boat club as the university crew. While we do not believe in any hard feeling existing between classes...