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Governor Bass stated that the Progressive Movement in New Hampshire is only a part of the great New Movement that is rapidly spreading all over the country. The object of the New Movement is: first, to give each voter a choice in the election of officers; second, to prevent small bodies of men, or corporations, from running the government to suit themselves; and third, to prevent the demagogue from exploiting the government for his own selfish end; in short to develop a government in which the people govern. Winston Churchill first attempted to accomplish this in New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT | 2/27/1912 | See Source »

...rink in New Haven was opened by a game with Technology which was won 5 to 3. Five goals were scored in the first half, but in the second the men were on the defensive practically all the time, and were forced to play their hardest to prevent a defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Yale Hockey Match | 2/17/1912 | See Source »

...over 600 men in our class, the committee urges every Senior to have his photograph taken as early as he possibly can and not to let the matter go until the end when the photographer will be unable to take care of a lot of rush orders, and thus prevent the book from being published at an early date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Class Notice | 2/6/1912 | See Source »

...over 600 men in our class, the committee urges every Senior to have his photograph taken as early as he possibly can and not to let the matter go until the end when the photographer will be unable to take care of a lot of rush orders and thus prevent the book from being published at an early date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Class Notice | 2/5/1912 | See Source »

...other hand, is "Enforce the present system in all the purity of its fundamental principles, and the evils will no longer have any place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive goods, in order to prevent the possibility of indirect evils--in short, the end justifies the means--,whereas the other wishes to uphold positive good and destroy evil by a direct attack at its root, that is, individual abuse of a legitimate right. "Does the house-wife," argues the conservative, "cease to give bread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/31/1912 | See Source »

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