Word: affections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect either case, but Exeter seemed quicker and more incisive than Harvard, until the last speech by Fitzpatrick, which, in massing, earnestness and grasp of situation was the best of the evening...
...various departments of the university. Its functions will be threefold: First, to represent the university in intercourse with other institutions on subjects which do not call for direct action on the part of the corporation; second, to refer questions of policy suggested from outside to the department affected; third, to discuss all acts of any one faculty which affect the workings of a department under the control of another...
...people who speak a strange tongue, whose sympathies are not with them and possibly never can be, so great is the difference between the Asiatic and the citizen of the United States. Homesickness, which the medical authorities have dignified as a distinct disease under the title of nostalgia, must affect hundreds of the soldiers in its most acute form. If the people at home will send the boys something to remind them that they are not forgotten, something to impress them with the hearty sympathy of the American people for the men who are fighting their battles, they will...
Cricket is a sport which has always been in somewhat this position here, and it is probable that the feeling among the players that it didn't affect the University much whether they won or lost, has been responsible for many Harvard defeats in the past. Last year there were a number of exceptionally good and enthusiastic cricketers in college, and the result was that the game had a temporary boom, occupied the minds of a number of men throughout a longer preparation than usual, and finally ended the season with a clean record of victories. This year the example...
...brought out editorially over a year ago) it is felt that while the power of the Faculty to summarily eject a man for dishonesty is a just one, it can hardly be said to be within the prerogative of any college administrative body to inflict a punishment which might affect a man's future prospects...