Word: breach
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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More than this it amounted to a breach of trust. The publications were held as a business investment by one who had been morally bound to turn them over at the end of his senior year to a man in the following class...
...team and of the University; doubtless he never thought of his obligations to them, and ran merely as any other private individual would have. But partly as an example to the rest of the team, and partly as a reminder to him, it is highly desirable that such a breach of discipline should receive some attention. Accordingly, although the man in question is one of the best athletes on the team, the management has seen fit to bar him from competition in the dual games to be held next week with the University of Pennsylvania...
...that it is known that the Corporation did not intend to force anything down our throats were are all extremely sorry for the misunderstanding and the breach which it caused, and feel that we ought to have known that a body composed of as wise and liberal men as the Corporation, would not treat the Senior class or any other body in the University with anything but honorable consideration and frankness...
Will you permit me through your columns to call attention to a Harvard custom which seems to me more honored in the breach than in the observance. I allude to the stamping by the students in Memorial Hall upon the slightest provocation. This evening a lady and gentleman entered the gallery, and the latter, happening to have his hat on, was greeted by a loud burst of stamping almost before he had reached the top of the staircase. He at once left the gallery. A similar incident took place a day or two ago in the case of two elderly...
...Control of the canal by the United States would be inexpedient.- (a) It would involve a breach of the Clayton. Bulwer treaty: L. M. Keasby in Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. Science, Jan., 1896, p. 21.- (b) No rights of exclusive control have been conceded to the United States by Nicaragua: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) The treaty of 1867 gave only the right to build the canal.- (c) European powers would not permit exclusive control by the United States: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., '96).- (1) As is shown...