Word: acte
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...custom, so long established as to be almost law, would be a disgrace to its officers and would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
...Spirit of the Times. When any of these papers concede a slight amount of praise to the performances of college athletes do not our bosoms swell with grateful pride? On such occasions as the recent inter-collegiate meeting in New York, therefore, it should be our first effort to act so as to gain the approbation of the omniscient scribes who report for these journals. It is with feelings of the deepest delight that we notice that in one respect that meeting was an improvement over previous ones. "The spectators," we are informed by the Spirit of the Times, "were...
...soul, without a sense of responsibility, for the simple reason that the individual is lost in the multitude. It is impossible to obtain from an aggregation of twenty or thirty men anything like uniformity of action. The whole is broken up into groups or cliques which do not act in concert, and according as one or the other of such cliques may be present on a given occasion, the voting will be decided one way or the other...
...unerringly between professionals and amateurs, and if anybody should attempt to draw such a line he would find himself confronted with a multitude of unanswerable technical questions. In trying to enforce the rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many, or to act inconsistently with the strict interpretation of the rule. Everybody understands by this time Harvard's position on the side of pure athletics. Would it not be the policy of wisdom to abolish arbitrary rules and regulations, and let college athletics regulate themselves, subject, of course, to occasional restraint, in case...
Comptroller of the Currency Knox is to act as commissioner of internal revenue for ten days, beginning today...