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Under the heading "Government of the University" is recorded an act passed by the Legislature, March 13, 1889, to enlarge the power of the President and Fellows of Harvard College to hold valuable real estate. The passage of this act was suggested by the complication which arose at Cornell in...
I. Ireland has a right to homerule.- a. Right of all British subjects to self-government; Hannis Taylor; Origin and growth of the English Constitution, I. 12, 13; Fiske, American Political Ideas. 54-56; 70-71; 91-92; Hosmer, Anglo Saxon Freedom, 270 271, 322-323; Nineteenth Century, February, 1887...
II. Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b...
The Marine Laboratory of Johns Hopkins, which has been closed for several years from lack of funds, is to be reopened in the Bahamas under the direction of Dr. William K, Brolks. At its first establishment at Chesapeake Bay and Beaufort. N. C., valuable studies were made in propagation and...
1. In a free government the sover-eignty rests with the people, and any policy must ultimately receive their approval. a. Our government is but a development from government by direct vote of the people; J. K. Hosmer, "Anglo Saxon Freedom," Chap. 1, pp. 5.8. b. On all questions the...