Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...face the situation. Existing conditions demand a remedy. Shall it be further attempts at regulation or municipal ownership? Three years ago, District-Attorney Jerome pledged himself to secure from these companies more efficient service, and although he was clothed with all the police powers of the city, he could accomplish almost nothing. All attempts at regulation have failed. The reason is manifest. Most of the franchises, owned by the street railway companies, are almost unconditional and practically perpetual. The only legal means by which the city can secure adequate control is to buy back the franchises. This means municipal ownership...
...fund the more closely is the class able to hang together, and the better able is it to have jolly re-gatherings, to have the completes of reports, to keep each and every man in touch with class interests, and to carry out successfully all class projects. To accomplish this every man must be willing and eager to give as large an amount as he can possible spare. Let us each and all get together, subscribe all we can and a little more, and raise such a fund as will enable the class to act with absolute freedom...
...adopted after the reading of suggestions offered by John C. Bell, of the University of Pennsylvania, who proposed a more open game by strengthening the centre and weakening the ends of the line. All the members agreed that brutality must be eliminated, but could not decide how to accomplish this...
...undergraduates, trusting to the generosity and public spirit of those who can afford to subscribe, and lightening the burden of those who must count every dollar. In the second place it is quite doubtful whether the raising of the price of the H. A. A. tickets would accomplish its object as there would probably be a diminution in the sales sufficient to counterbalance the increase in the price. In point of fact it is likely that the athletic funds as a whole would be better off if there were no H. A. A. tickets. University athletics are not a business...
...which would affect the general style of play. The Committee, in which W.T. Reid, Jr., '01 represented the University, voted that a more open game than has been played in the past few years would be advisable, but after three hours discussion could not agree upon any plan to accomplish...