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...meet with Yale tomorrow afternoon. The team will meet in Harvard square at 2.15 o'clock and will go by special car to the South Station. Leaving Boston on the 3 o'clock New York train, the team will reach New Haven at 6.41 o'clock, and will go direct to the Taft Hotel where it will spend the night. It his been decided not to stay in New London or Farmington over night, as has been the custom in former years, because of the long tiresome trip to New Haven, the morning of the meet, which that entails...
Declaring that the initiative, referendum, and the recall are necessary to the ultimate vitality of a really democratic political system, Mr. Herbert Croly, in the fourth of the Godikn Lectures on "Democracy and Responsibility" last night, stated that, with the constantly increasing power of the mechanism of civilization, direct government becomes as essential to democracy as universal suffrage...
With the constantly increasing scope of the power of the mechanism of civilization, direct government becomes as essential to democracy as universal suffrage. Both are necessary to a fundamentally ethical conception of the organization and exercise of political power as contrasted with one whose chief offsets are safety or immediate efficiency. The rule, however, works both ways. On the one hand, the adoption of the machinery of direct government finds its best justification in the fact that the modern state has to undertake a program of social amelioration, and has to assume for that purpose peculiarly serious responsibilities and call...
...Oxford Press has had the longest continuous existence of any printing establishment. A press was instituted in 1478, but it did not come under the direct control of the university until 1585. Since that time its field of activity and its output have grown steadily. In 1830 its present large building was erected, which makes it the most self-contained press in the world, for all the paper, type, and even the glue and ink used are made within the plant...
Shifting the responsibility for American constitutional development from the courts to the entire electorate by means of a new machinery for amending the Federal constitution was the method for securing independence of the courts from political influence and establishing more direct expression of public will, proposed by Mr. Herbert D. Croly '90, in the Godkin series of lectures last night. Mr. Croly claimed that the United States, with its national unity now well established, has outgrown its old system of government by law, and should be ruled by the popular will...