Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long hall with lockers around the four sides will occupy most of the floor, the space on each side of the stairway being used for bathrooms. The lower floor will be devoted to the storing of boats. Two large doors open from this floor out onto a large platform from which the floats are reached. Over this platform is a long balcony on which the hall upstairs opens. The boathouse will be finished the last of March or the first of April...
...debate was opened for the affirmative by C. Macy '92. He began his argument by stating the platform adopted by the republicans at Chicago, many points of which he said President Harrison had disregarded. In regard to civil service he said that many removals from office had been made without cause. Mr. Macy closed his argument with an explanation of the Tanner question...
...opponents that the republican party was lazy but the question to be proved was whether or not President Harrison had violated his pledges. The president has been surrounded by incompetent heads of departments who wish to turn out men; in addition he is oppressed by poor service. The platform of the republican party he said, favors the extension of the civil service reform in so far as to give the sole power of removal from office to an investigation committee. Had President Harrison vetoed any of these measures in the platform when brought before the senate then he might...
...Blaney, '90, introduced the question for the affirmative. His principal idea was to show the rapid downfall of the republican and the steady rise in power of the democratic party. The republican platform he considered under three heads: civil service, pensions and tariff. He closed his argument by urging all to vote for Russell if they wished for good government...
...Griffin, L. S., then ably introduced the negative side of the question. He reviewed the platform of the republican party touching upon the public schools and metropolitan police system. Under the republican rule the system of high license has been established, which is acknowledged as the ideal system of license. The attitude of the democrats toward the public schools is weakening if not destructive. Finally he referred to the complaint offered by the democrats to the small type used on the ballot which they claim the uneducated would have difficulty in reading...