Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...followed by the Earl of Orkney, who held the nominal title of governor for forty years, but who governed by means of deputies whom he sent out. Perhaps the most famous of these was Alexander Spottswood, who came over in 1710. His most memorable act was the conducting of an expedition, consisting of fifty men, over the hitherto unexplored Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley. Spottswood too was in 1722 removed as the result of a dispute with Dr. Blair concerning the governors right to appoint the clergy to their parishes...
...editorial writer in the Crimson who compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...
...Friday evening, December 4, the alumni of the university will give to the members of the championship football team a banquet which promises to be the most elaborate ever given in Princeton. Mr. James W. Alexander '60 will preside. Mr. Adrian Joline '70 will act as toast-master. Harvard University will be represented by Mr. Joseph Sears, captain of the Harvard eleven in '88, and Yale University will send as her representative, Mr. George Adee. Governor Griggs of New Jersey will also be present...
...sufficiently condemnatory. Why this vital defect in the college morals should exist is hard to decide; but we believe the men who represent another's work as their own, fall into the evil through carelessness and thoughtlessness of its dishonorable character, if a man can commit an act of deliberate dishonesty through thoughtlessness...
...judges in the first trial to choose Harvard's representatives in the Princeton debate, that the number and ability of the men who tried was insufficient to choose the required number of men from, brings out forcibly a very disheartening condition of our debatting affairs. Owing to the act of interest in the trial by the students an other debate had to be arranged for Monday night...