Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...show the courage of their conviction more radically than by simply forbidding our nine to play with professionals. They ought to feel called upon to address a circular letter to the other colleges in the league urging the discontinuance of the present custom. We are convinced that a sober appeal from one faculty to another could not fail of bringing about the desired result. As for our own position in this matter, we are persuaded that base-ball would be elevated as a college sport through such a return to former times, thought it might lose some of the niceties...
...meeting in Chicago was practically over, a large part of the crowd had dispersed, and that the previous speeches were peaceable. More than half of the anarchists now under the penalty of death were away at the time the bomb was thrown. Only the first circulars made an appeal to arms, the later ones did not. The anarchists did not have a fair trial, the newspapers hounded them pitilessly and that if they are executed, the effect will be to make martyrs of them with their fellows and incite others to further crime...
...have doubts, do not try to settle them yourself, turn to the authorities. If a man meets a difficulty he should try to solve it with the aid of the proper authorities, and he will be satisfied, if he is a reasonable man. Theology is a science, so appeal to experts; do not say that a thing is untrue because you find it so. Religion is a man's personal obligation to Christ. One should approach religion with a child's spirit and not with a student's spirit. Student spirit is for Theology. A man must...
Section 7.- The Advisory Committee shall act as a committee of appeals and shall hold its regular annual session on the first Saturday of December in each year, at which time it shall hear and finally determine any appeal, which must be in writing, from a decision or determination which substantially effects the interpretation or construction...
...advisory committee shall, at its first meeting, elect five of its own members to act as a committee of appeals, which shall contain at least one representative each from Harvard, Princeton and Yale. The said committee of appeals shall hold its regular annual session on the first Saturday of December of each year, at which time it shall hear and finally determine any appeal, which must be in writing, from a decision or determination which, substantially, affects the interpretation or construction of any provision of the constitution, or of the rules of the association during the year preceding...