Word: taken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court in its recent decision on the Steal Corporation case has taken a remarkable position on the application of laws and has set an opochmaking precedent. This court, composed of the nine-most mature legal minds in the country, has reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statue which usually accomplished this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In a word, the public weal supersedes...
...present it is planned to take down three crews, the fist and second University, and the first Freshman. Two, and probably three, shells will be shipped to Lynn, where the West Lynn Boat club has given the use of its boathouse. A coaching launch will also be taken. The crews will go to Lynn each afternoon, probably on the Narrow Gauge line, until the roads are in better shape, when it is expected that automobiles will be used...
...anti-prohibition. As long as the townsmen could keep their cellars supplied from Boston, they voted to keep their back yards free from the saloon. It was really not a moral objection that caused them to vote "dry", as is shown by their reversal of opinion after prohibition had taken effect in Boston. A practical lesson in the ethics of voting should be drawn from this weak policy of moral vacillation, that another such mistake may not be made...
...expect to enter are to sign up as soon as possible. The list of events includes the 40-yard dash, 300, 600, 1000-yard runs, mile run, high jump, shot put, and pole vault. All events will be run off with handicaps and men must have taken strength tests before they can compete...
Without entering into a discussion of Political Theory--it may be taken as an obvious fact that a radical group is as necessary as any other to a healthy condition of political affairs. Radicalism is generally the advance-guard of progressive movement. Mr. Weaver may be correct in stating that the Radical of today is not the Liberal of tomorrow--that, I take it, as a matter of individual psychology. But it would be sheer nonsense to deny that the radical principles (Radicalism) of today are the liberal principles (Liberalism) of tomorrow. The England that tore its hair...