Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unity of action ! What harmony in debate ! What ease in obtaining a quorum ! It may be, however, that with admirable foresight the enterprising officers have arranged a system of the telephones so that although each man meets in his own room, there may be yet some connecting link to bind them all in that united, active whole, which, like the Art Club, has done much good work for Harvard...
...affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless for the people to engage in commerce, be evaded by them as faithful subjects?" C. Strong, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, gave an affirmative answer, in 1767, to the following question:"Does a promise that has been given bind the highest magistrate in a civil government?" John Adams' subject was (1758), "Is civil government absolutely necessary for men?" Other questions, within ten years of the beginning of the revolution, were, "Is an inferior magistrate obliged to execute the orders of his superior, when they would plainly subvert the commonwealth...
...such an important factor in college life elsewhere. True it is, that here at Harvard this class-feeling is at a minimum, partly because of the size of the classes, and partly because of the so-called Harvard indifference, but anything that will tend to increase this feeling and bind the members of a class more closely together, ought to receive a hearty support. Judging from the success which attended the '85 sophomore dinner, we feed sure that if the arrangements were placed in the hands of an energetic committee, there would be no doubt as to the success...
...induced the authorities of the schools to change the pronounciation to the new but more correct method. As Exeter is largely a so-called Harvard school, this important change in the pronounciation of the language cannot fail to increase its advantages as a fitting place for Harvard and to bind it still more closely to our college...
...owing to doubts as to the strength of its walls, and as a result it stands empty and useless for weeks at a time. Now it seems as if the old hall could be again made useful by building interior partition walls of brick so as to strengthen and bind the structure together; and by dividing it off into suites of rooms like those in Holworthy, with a study in front and two bed-rooms in the rear, the accommodations of the yard would be materially increased. By this arrangement twelve suites of rooms would be provided, of which...