Word: add
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certain amount of system is also introduced into the chaotic third declension, by grouping the consonant stems simply according to their behavior to the letters, and by presenting the i stems in progressive series, thus greatly simplifying the difficulties. Other equally original changes have been introduced, which add greatly to the value of the grammar as a text book...
...forms-by national sovereignty and by state sovereignty-which means that the government cannot undertake to assume as national questions all the affairs of life, but that the states must do their share in examining them. Again there is a practical difficulty which confronts us when we try to add the divorce law to our national constitution: this, that a three-fourths vote of the states is required to pass an amendment, and, since there are so many laws, it would be hard to obtain a satisfactory vote on any one of them...
...three games where, with fair umpiring, the score at least would have been different, it certainly does seem time for Princeton, in justice to herself, to demand some new and fair system of umpiring, so that there may be no danger of history repeating itself. I have only to add that this plan is heartily approved by a large number of New York alumni with whom I have conversed on the subject...
...first has long been a subject of discussion but this has of late received a new impetus from the attitude assumed by the college journals, and a consensus of opinion that is being taken and will add weight to any future action in the matter. The second subject is one that has only lately acquired prominence, but which is perhaps the most important of the three. The subject of athletics is of especial interest at this time in view of the poor showing made by the college organizations during the past year...
Encouraged by the success of the road-race with Technology last week, the Bicycle Club has decided to challenge the Yale club to a similar race next spring. If the plan is carried out it will add another to the list of championship contests between Yale and Harvard. Of course it will be impossible to arouse as general an interest in bicycling as exists in foot-ball, base-ball, or rowing, but a race like the one proposed will tend to lift bicycling from the comparatively insignificant place it now holds as a college sport. Yale has many good riders...