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...average of the mayor. Therefore the appointments would be much better, if the mayor were not subject to a confirming board. The mayor's responsibility is much greater than that of the board of aldermen, for there is not one man in a thousand who would ever think of blaming the latter...
...reaching importance as the five-year foot ball arrangement with Harvard. On questions that touch so nearly as this does the whole athletic interest of the University it has always been customary for the University to decide, and the manner in which the present agreement was made is, we think, a grave infraction of the powers delegated to our representatives, and a precedent too dangerous to be allowed to pass without comment...
...votes with the Democratic party, it is possible that he may attain his wish and further the cause of Free Trade, but at the same time he will lend his influence for free silver. The lesser of two evils is to vote for a revenue system. I think I can say that the Protection Policy has not lost ground. It is singular how intellectual men have differed on this question. Adam Smith, Ricardo, Mill and Taussig have pointed in one direction and Bismarck and his followers in another. The men of action have been going their way and our philosophers...
These services undoubtedly do much good and singing is one of the principal attractions. The City Mission can look no where else for help, and I think it is a disgrace to the whole college, especially to the musical and religious societies that so little interest in them is shown. Any one who can sing at all can help - it is not necessary to be a Glee Club man. I trust that next Sunday enough men will get up the necessary interest and so far throw off the spirit of "Harvard indifference" as to make the service what it should...
...undertaking, or this want of centralization may have been, and very likely was, combined with other bad elements in the original plan. We ourselves do not for a moment believe that any one man was wholly responsible for the failure. What we asked for Saturday, and what we still think eminently desirable, is the publication, as speedily as may be, of the accounts of the association, together with a statement of the history of the training table, of the causes which led to its failure, and of the possibility or impossibility of reviving it successfully in the future. We believe...