Word: electivity
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...well paid, appointed to serve during good behavior and efficiency, and entitled to a pension, after reasonably long service, or on disability. The judge should always be the principal person in the court-room. He is in England; often he is not in this country. The American practice of electing judges for short terms has seriously impaired in many states the quality of judges and their position in the community. The very voters that elect the judges easily acquire the habit of distrusting them...
...Faculty of Harvard University has paid Woodrow Wilson a distinguished compliment. It has placed his "Congressional Government" on the list of obligatory reading in its governmental course, and it is now being studied by 400 students. But how does that body know that the views of the president-elect are the same now as they were when he wrote that work? The book appeared so long ago that it had been forgotten by most of those who were familiar with his writings. It was written in 1884, when he was 28 years old, was the first of his books...
...Meeting of St. Paul's Society to elect officers for the year of 1913-14, in Brooks House...
...Meeting of St. Paul's Society to elect officers for the year of 1913-14, in Brooks House...
...choice of officers by the Seniors today is far and away the most important election in which that class has as yet taken part. Heretofore it has selected its leaders for the ensuing year only; now it is to pick men who are to be its leaders, not merely until graduation, but throughout the whole period of its existence. Two considerations enter into the selection of officers. In the first place, what has the candidate done during his College career; or, in other words, is he representative? Second and equally important, is he fitted to perform the duties he must...