Word: tends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What must be the result on politics? A class of men is created who know that they must tend to politics, or lose their job. Such men become the mercenaries of corrupt political leaders. Against them are arrayed decent men, but these decent men cannot have any such organization as do the mercenaries. Organized corruption has good chances of winning against unorganized decency. The only way to break up this organization of corruption is by taking away from the political leaders the offices by which they pay themselves...
...other objects we are heartily in favor of, yet we do not see precisely what the press club is to do to promote them. It is possible that a monthly meeting might tend to bind the editors together, but we are very skeptical as to the tangibility of this union...
...greater part of this increase is in the Lawrence Scientific School. This is but one more of the facts which tend to show that this School of the University is to become one of the most important, as it is already one of the best-known, departments. The large additions made this year to the opportunities afforded by the School, were wisely placed...
There are a number of changes in the football rules this season, which tend to change the game in several directions. The new rules have been framed with the idea of bringing about a more open game and eliminating those features which were thought to be a detriment to the sport...
...steep itself in a noble and victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never be excluded, and it is that of the master-spirits of all the centuries. When...