Word: tends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which its members feel is increased by the knowledge that the class has been deprived of one whose energy, ability and courage seemed certain to bring honors to both himself and his class. His career at Harvard was marked throughout by a lively interest in the things which would tend to advance the welfare of his class and the College...
...rights of citizenship: Outlook, Aug. 10, 1895; Arena, II, 561 (November 1890).- (b) Open defiance of the Constitution breeds a disregard for authority and a revolutionary spirit: North Am. Review CXXXII, 247 (February, 1881).- (c) This question should be removed from the constantly increasing number of questions which tend to divide the country on sectional lines...
...National control of elections is impolitic.- (a) It would tend to stir up the South: North Am. Review CLIII, 653-54 (December 1891).- (b) Corruption and fraud are the inevitable results of such control: Senate Reports 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Report of Com. on Election Frauds.- (c) Power would be centralized under Federal authority and used for the perpetuation of partisan rule: Sen. Rep. 46 Cong. 3 Sess., Rep. of Com. on Election Frauds...
...athletic team goes through a season's work depends very much on the interest manifested by the University at large on the occasion of such public contests as those of today. If men will turn out in good numbers to support their respective classes, their very presence will tend to heighten interest in track athletics and indirectly give encouragement to the University track team...
...Weaken union of states and national government. - (b) Give greater chance to fraud. - (1) More power to city bosses. - (c) Lower the ability of the Senate by - (1) reducing character of the senators to that of the state governors. - (2) Doing away with probability of re-election. - (3) Tend to disarrange the whole frame work of our government...