Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secretary of Harvard University recently issued a notice to the Cambridge students to the effect that he was willing to act as their second "next friend" in seeking summer employment for such of them as needed to work in order to support themselves. His offer, it appears, has drawn from the poorer class of men, some of them members of the medical, law and divinity schools, applications as varied as they are numerous. They want work for their heads or their hands, it matters little which so long as it pays their...
...most earnest and and industrious class. They are, many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters...
...write a complete history of an act of Congress was, said Dr. Hart, impossible; he should attempt only to trace the outward life of the River and Harbor Bill of 1887, as an illustration of the methods of Congress and of financial legislation...
...following gentlemen will act as officers...
...Butterworth, on the negative, reminded the Union of the fact that by statistics it can be proved that the condition of Ireland does not justify coercion. Every one of the 87 coercion acts introduced during the present century was an act of barbarism! He criticised severely those sections of the bill which provide for the trial of offences by a foreign judge and by foreign juries. Public sentiment both in England and America has declared against it. It is unlawful, unwise and unjust...