Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negative Mr. Chenoweth declared that the jury system was liable to great abuses and that the chief reason the anarchists were sentenced was because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...distinctly a practical view of religion and religious work that is going on to day in Edinburgh, and which the movers are trying to start elsewhere. Three years ago the active work as started by meetings held on Sunday evenings under the directions of students, and the chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those whom Prof. Drummond calls the "spectators," those who with Mr. Huxley are neither for Christianity nor against it, but are extra-Christians. Their...
...Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that, if the game becomes a mere medium for betting, it will be a public nuisance and ought to be suppressed; and partly from...
...next fiscal year (one week before the beginning of the academic year), to the University public including by special provision all persons connected with the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women or with the Episcopal Theological School-without the requirement of a membership fee. One of the chief objects thus attained will be that all students alike may procure their textbooks and books of reference at wholesale cost, the Society charging a very slight profit on such books, by exceptions...
JAMES W. APPLETON,Chief Junior Usher...