Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Manoel de Oliveira Lima, Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil to Belgium, delivered an address in Emerson D last evening on "The Independence of Latin America, and its Evolution in the Nineteenth Century." Dr. Lima discussed the two principal forms of thought and action, in which the movement for freedom has proceeded in the more southerly countries of this hemisphere. The one is reactionary, having Napoleon for its prototype, and the other is liberal, being formed after the example of Washington...
...chief action of the meeting was the decision that the University Track Management might enter into a two-year agreement with Cornell. If negotiations are concluded with the Cornell management, it is probable that the first meet will be held in Cambridge next spring and in Ithaca the year after. This will take the place of the Dartmouth meet. It will be the first track agreement ever entered into with Cornell and a departure long hoped and worked for by track enthusiasts of the University...
...sound doctrine set forth in the article concerning Freshmen is further insisted on by Mr. D. E. Dunbar in "The Making of a Standard." Both Faculty and students are apt to take it for granted that the standard of scholarship in the College can be raised only by the action of instructors; we are indebted to Mr. Dunbar for his vigorous suggestions as to how the undergraduates might support the office to the advantage of the intellectual tone of our whole, community...
...action taken by an undergraduate body for the revision of the University Hymnal marks a significant change in what formerly has been considered the religious attitude of the students. In 1895 it was found expedient to revise and enlarge with great care the hymnal which Edward Everett Hall, Phillips Brooks, Alexander McKenzie, and George A. Gordon had compiled nine years before, and now, after seventeen years that have seen even greater changes in the University, it is no wonder that the need of revision is again felt. No attempt was made by the second group of compilers to provide...
...subjected to a severe defensive strain, and consequently the problem as to whether the men in the line will be able to withstand the attack of one of the heavier teams or will be able to give the fast men back of the line an opportunity to get into action still remains unsolved...