Word: statesmanship
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...either agreement or disagreement with his main position. The thing now chiefly to be noticed is his assumption that any criticism of the position taken by the government is disloyal,- "a discredit to Harvard College," "a spiritless submission to English demands," "The stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statesmanship which is clamored for at this moment by men who put monetary gain before national honor...
...what can we expect so long as we confine ourselves merely to prohibiting abuses and leave the cause of them untouched? We have seen that the cause of the fluctuation of rates and of the favoritism shown to large towns was excessive competition. True statesmanship would strike at the root of the matter and destroy this competition...
...affirmative side. Mr. Blaine's withdrawal deprives the country of a great political servant. He is the most prominent and best trained statesman before the public. Ever since he entered Congress in 1863, his career as Representative, Speaker and twice Secretary of State has been characterized by great statesmanship and has won for him the confidence and trust of the Republican party...
...Morton, '92, of the affirmative, opened the debate. Where women are made citizens, they should have all the rights of naturalization as well as man. To prevent women from voting is to depopulate a country of just so many citizens. Woman is said to be indifferent to diplomacy and statesmanship, but that is only because she is given no chance to take any part in them...
...First as to candidates. At Harvard we are told 251 prefer Blaine and 413 Cleveland. So far as it goes this certainly tends to confirm the statesmanship of Mr. Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since...