Word: speaker
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Socialism, the speaker said, is indefinable. In one phase it aims at making the state all powerful, in another utterly to destroy it. The general tendency of socialism is to cause growing interest in present life. It is an expression of despair. The present industrial system is said to be a mere struggle for a prize that goes to the mightiest and most influential. But in studying socialism we must look at its best as well as at its worst sides...
...proposer of the scheme prepared the draft of a constitution, on the model of one he had seen working at another college, which was adopted with some few alterations by the students. The 'Hopkins House of Commons' was incorporated. The officers were to be as follows: 1, a speaker elected twice a year, who was to have all the duties of the same officer in the English House of Commons, and, besides, the executive power of appointing the prime minister; 2, a prime minister, who was always to belong to the majority of the house; 3, a foreign secretary...
...Hamilton was the first speaker on the negative. He claimed that the policy was wrong in principle, wrong in equity, and that it failed to accomplish its end. He asserted the Californians had neglected to help the Chinaman, that he will assimilate with Americans and their customs, if he only has the chance and that he will, on going home, advance the civilization of his people...
...system is regulated both by tradition and by law. In America, whatever uniformity there is between college and preparatory school methods is mainly fostered and promoted by the fact that the teachers in preparatory schools are generally college graduates, and so bring with them the college methods. The speaker believed that there ought to be a difference between the quality and quantity of studies for those high school pupils whose education is to end in these institutions and those who are to enter the preparatory schools and colleges. A boy who could go no further than the high school ought...
...same strictness in examinations is desirable in all instances. But in all cases where the number of subjects and the limits are the same, there should be a uniformity in the preparation of questions. An elective system in the matter of admission is no bar to uniformity. The speaker believed that the only way to secure the proper degree of uniformity was through the establishment of a board representing all the colleges interested, a board to be intrusted with the preparation and the marking of examination papers for admission in all cases where subjects and limits could be agreed upon...