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...March number of the Monthly is of varied interest and great excellence. It opens with an article on "Caucus Reform" by Mr. Richard H. Dana. Mr. Dana shows the strong necessity for improvement in the American caucus system, and then discusses the proposed reforms. The first step he advocates is "to regulate the system by statute law." He looks to the Australian ballot as the solution of several knotty problems, and instances its success in a recent election in Ward 11 of Boston. It gave publicity to the proceedings, equal power to all voters, more time for voting, and secrecy...
...glad that the officers have taken this opportunity to explain how the club is run. Under the new management the club seems to be showing more activity than before and a determination to improve We hope it will reform some existing deficiencies, and as the concert of last Friday seems to promise, rise to the highest level it has ever attained...
...Lord Brougham has given me his full bottom, Lord Chancellor's wig, in which he made his great speech on the Reform bill. Such a wig costs twelve guineas and then the associations of it! In America it would be like Rabelais' gown...
...board of directors. These officers will have before them a task which will require great activity and earnest work, if they undertake to correct the abuses we have already called attention to. The society appears to have been badly managed and to be sadly in need of reform. With a suitable superintendent, and a board of officers elected especially for the purpose. great improvements ought to be made in the coming year...
...Carey. In speaking of the evils of intercollegiate contests, the president says, "The rules governing intercollegiate base ball and football contests have been made by leagues.' Experience has abundantly proved that nothing is to be hoped from these 'leagues.' They are worse than useless for purposes of reform and are the sources of incessant misunderstanding, quarrels and recriminations between the colleges represented." The president considers that a dual league is worth trying; but one of the evils of intercollegiate sports is not so much the number of them as their intensity-the great amount of preparation undergone to carry them...