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...their students, athletes or otherwise, but merely being on time in their reports. It may be said that any man who reaches the point where he can be put on probation deserves no consideration. At the same time it is discouraging in the extreme for any man to pull himself up out of the hole, satisfy all the requirements, only to find that his grades went in too late to enable him to take part in spring activities...
...more to do with people than any other form of government, either the nation or the state. The problem is so to administer the municipal government that its services will be given alike to all its citizens because they are citizens, and not because they have any political pull. The greatest danger to which we come is from neglect, and from having our government pass into the hands of those who run it for their own selfish purposes by making the city administration a personal and political machine for the benefit of those who control it and whose activities...
...university end the other was at Machu Picchu. It may be presumed that there were always more students going toward the city than toward the university; consequently the car at the top of the incline would be the heavier, and when the brakes were released it would pull the other up, supplying all the motive force needed. The journey seems to have required about eight minutes...
...which goes to show that amateur success in politics is not beyond the realms of possibility. Were it not for the fact that cities a hundred times the size of Youngstown permit politicians to "pull off" the most incredible hoaxes on the people, the case of Mr. Oles could be passed over as a joke. But remembering this fact, his election is an additional indication that the average intelligence in this country is such that a clever salesman can get away with almost anything...
...meant it in the right way, but he went a little too far in including all of the above. Without a doubt there are a great many of these students who sit in the Harvard cheering section and make themselves obnoxious. But there are also a great many who pull for Harvard as well as the average undergraduate does...