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...Athletic Committee has proved since its establishment that it is in many ways the best means for governing our college athletics that could be devised. Probably no university has governed its athletics in a more efficient manner, both in its local sports and in the management of intercollegiate relations, than has Harvard through this committee. The success in the diplomacy in the recent intercollegiate troubles proves its value as a smoothly running and efficiently working machine to carry on and regulate our athletic affairs...
...FLERSHEM.THE Harvard Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew will meet tonight in Grays 17 at seven o'clock. Robert H. Gardiner, Esq., President of the Boston Local Council, will be present. All members of the Brotherhood are cordially invited...
...results of the adoption of these two amendments, viz., biennial elections, will be harmful. A. Biennial elections will weaken local self-government. (1) Will lessen the power of the people. (a) They can rebuke representatives only half as often. (2) Politicians will look upon Massachusetts politics solely from the the point of view of national party supremacy. (Speech of E. E. Hale, Oct. 23, 1896). (a) State elections are thus made subordinate to national. (x) Elections will be on national issues. (y) Offices will be filled with reference to national politics: Examples, Governor Powers, notorious for his acquirement of State...
Debate of Oct. 22, 1896.Question: "Resolved, That the U. S. authorities should not interfere with local affairs except at the request of the state...
...right. (A) It is in line with policy of U. S. for one hundred years. 1. Tendency of our history steadily toward centralization. (Harper's, LXXXV, 240, and Cooley, Principles of Constitutional Law, 27.) B. Interference may be necessary to protect interstate commerce and U. S. mail. 1. Local authorities, as experience proves, not always disposed to do their duty promptly. (a) Chicago strike. (2) Such delays affect peace and happiness of entire nation. C. Dangers of centralization cannot be urged in opposition. 1. It is a choice of evils. (a) Principles of centralization and localization, if carried to excess...