Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every sign of individual thought. There has been a suggestion of "eminent domain" about the conduct of the proctors this year which has made them decidedly obnoxious. The students cannot expect to be left to themselves at the examinations; they may, however, reasonably expect the proctors to act as gentlemen...
This endowment will be applied under direction of six Trustees of the Phillips Brooks Memorial, of whom no more than two shall at any time belong to the same religious denomination. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, Professor George H. Palmer and Robert Treat Paine, Esq. have been requested to act in this capacity and to select by unanimous choice their three associates. These Trustees will fill all vacancies in their number, and have full discretion to arrange and provide for the perpetual, non-sectarian administration and care of this charity. Bishop Brooks' classmates propose to give at least one tenth...
...great trouble with a man's perfecting himself is the fact of self-consciousness. The man who aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...
...both put themselves on record as favoring the confinement of athletics to undergraduates; that Harvard would not accept the resolutions for selfish reasons, but that public sentiment would force her to it. The Captains could interpret the constitution in no other way than as allowing them the authority to act as they like...
...fact that the university could not take these bequests on account of its charter limitations is stated followed by the clause of the act passed May 12,1882, amending the charter 30 as to remove every limitation...