Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Mr. William Garrott Brown '91, the Deputy Keeper of the University Archives, has an article in the Atlantic Monthly for November, entitled "A Defense of American Parties." Mr. Brown's article is ably written, and its appearance during the present political campaign is timely.
Mr. Brown begins by estimating that one American in five votes for a person, that one in ten votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite...
Dec. 10 -- Paul Henry Hanus, S. B. "Pestalozzi and the Development of Education for the People."
Nov. 12--Le Baron Russell Briggs, A. M. Reading from the Iliad, "The Death of Hector," with comments.
There will also be a lecture on Nov. 26 by Shehadi Abdallah Shehadi, A. B., on "The Bedouins of the Desert" illustrated by stereopticon and costumes. The lectures will be given at the Y. M. C. A. building on Massachusetts Avenue.