Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject for the next Senior forensic is apparently designed to embody, in a more or less permanent form, the results of certain thorough investigations recently made by some members of the class. The subject is as follows: "Is trial by jury the mode of trial best fitted to determine the truth and establish the right...
...money subscribed in accordance with this plan will be devoted to subscriptions to art journals, and in general to the collection of a library of reference for students of art. At the same time the co-operation of a certain number of students is necessary to carry out this plan, and in order to ascertain if it be practicable, all those who would like to subscribe are requested to send their names, as soon as possible, to Barrett Wen-dell, 9 Linden Street...
...opinion of the Editors of the Advocate when one society and a certain number of non-society men vote several times for the same men, the inference is irresistible that there was a coalition. Apply this method of reasoning. In the case of each of these offices, about the possession of which there has been so much dispute, but two candidates were balloted for: one was a Pudding man, the other was not. Was it, then, necessary for a person who belonged to a division of the class outside the Pudding to vote for a Pudding candidate when...
This is the extent of the coalition which the Advocate so loudly decries; but why should it be regarded more detrimental to an open election for men, non-society and society, to unite in supporting a certain ticket, than for men inside a society to unite in doing the same thing? That there was a "coalition" between the members of the Pudding, not to mention persons outside of it, is evident from the facts, first, that before the meeting several Pudding men, in one case as many as four, were nominated by Pudding men for the same office; and, secondly...
...straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...