Part 29 (1/2)
40. The annexation of Cuba to the United States would be for the best interests of Cuba.
41. The United States should grant full citizens.h.i.+p to the people of Porto Rico.
42. The United States should establish an old age-pension system similar to the one in operation in Germany.
43. Political union with Cuba would be for the advantage of the United States.
44. The United States should permanently retain the Philippines.
45. The House of Representatives should elect its standing committees.
46. The white citizens of the Southern States are justified in maintaining their political supremacy.
47. Congress should prohibit corporate contributions to political campaign funds.
48. The present powers of courts to grant injunctions should be curtailed.
49. In all criminal cases three-fourths of a jury should be competent to render a verdict.
50. The United States government is treating the Indians unjustly.
51. Capital punishment should be abolished.
52. Education should be compulsory to the age of sixteen.
53. The fully elective system of studies should be introduced into all colleges.
54. College students receiving an average daily grade of eighty-five per cent, in a subject should be excused from final examination in that subject.
55. Cla.s.s rushes should be abolished at ---- College.
56. Hazing should be abolished at all colleges.
57. Freshmen should be debarred from intercollegiate athletic contests.
58. Athletics, as conducted at present, are detrimental to ---- College.
59. The Federal government should maintain a college for the education of men for the diplomatic and consular service.
60. A large city affords a better location for a college than does the country.
61. The ”honor system” should prevail at ---- College.
62. American universities should admit women on equal terms with men.
63. American colleges should admit students only on examination.
64. American colleges should confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts in three years.
65. Public schools should not furnish free textbooks.