Word: acted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soon on reasonable terms they would withdraw from the institution. The seniors, feeling that this meant utter ruin to the institution, whose interest they have at heart, decided if possible to overlook the wrongs which they have received at the hands of the faculty, and make amends for their act of disobedience by submitting the following apology under protest, all of which seems to redound far more to the credit of the seniors than of the faculty: "We the undersigned members of the senior class, while we feel that our request was a reasonable one, and while we deny...
...that of 1832, which virtually annulled all the abominations of the tariff of 1828. This tariff was planned by John Quincy Adams, the leader of the Republican party at that time. All the tariffs after this were the results of party feeling. The tariff of 1833 was a compromise act between the two parties, and was arranged by Clay and Calhoun. Its purpose was to bring all duties to twenty per cent. ad valorem. This is probably the poorest tariff passed by any nation. The Congress which came in in 1842 put in a new tariff, entirely different from that...
...undersigned representing the Harvard and Yale Boat Clubs with full powers to act for the same agree to the adoption of the foregoing rules...
...following board with its officers were then elected to act provisionally...
...despatch on Saturday stated that the announcement published that eight more sophomores have been ordered to leave Bowdoin on account of their connection with hazing, is incorrect. The facts are, of those who were already away by their own act rather than attend the exercises, eight have been allowed to return, the rest petitioning to be allowed to return...