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Liberal. The Liberals start out by defining their position in the last Parliament, referring to the "Russian Blunder"(i.e., promising to guarantee a loan) ; it then deals with unemployment, housing, land, agriculture, coal and power, education, free trade, industrial peace, social insurance, prohibition, electoral reform, and ends: "The people have now a choice to make between three parties. It has an opportunity of putting in power a Liberal Government, which will pursue the path of peace, social reform, and national development, avoiding, on the one hand, unthinking resistance to progress, and, on the other hand, unbalanced experiments and impracticable schemes...
...elected last spring to the Board of Overseers of the University. Since 1916 he has been Justice of the Boston Juvenile Court. He is a widely quoted and well known authority on Juvenile delinquencies and is President of the Judge Raker Foundation for research in that field of reform work...
...never had a constitution to be reviewed or repudiated by any kind of a Supreme Court. Even the House of Lords is today subject to the will of the House of Commons, and Goldwin Smith well said that "in the last 300 years of English history no reform ever originated in the House of Lords"; and it is just as true that no reform ever originated in the Supreme Court of the United States but the progress of democracy and civilization has been held back by the Supreme Court's decisions in favor of property rights of man, woman...
...events which are even now taking place in Arabia, attention will be drawn to onethe Wahabite. The Wahabis are a cross between the Hanbalite and Zahirite sects or, in western parlance, the Puritans of the Church of Islam. They cling tenaciously to orthodox Moslem tenets and strive for the reform of Islam in conformity to the teachings of the Koran. They believe...
...increased freedom of speech figured in the 1876 procession which was notable for its transparencies. Some of the planks announced were "Hayes and Wheeler and Reform in the Faculty, Honesty in Policies and Cribs in Examinations" and "Hard Money and Soft Electives." Unusual patriotism figured in this 1876 procession, says the account, evidenced by the students' frequent references to the "Spirit of '76" which they carried with them in the black bottles...