Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Overseers at their meeting yesterday morning voted to confirm the election of Dr. H. A. Christian A.M. '03, as successor to W. L. Richardson M.D., who resigned last year the deanship of the Harvard Medical School, after more than a year's deliberation. Dr. Christian was elected by the President and Fellows at their meeting on October 12, and as there were remarkable opportunities offered by the enlarged endowment and splendid equipment of the school, the choice was awaited with an unusual amount of interest. They realized that a man was needed who not only would bring...
...Hemenway contributed so liberally in the good cause. Aside from statistical proofs, the consistently poor records of our basketball, fencing, swimming and gymnastic teams alone show that there is something at fault. All point to our overcrowded, ill-ventilated, unsanitary Gymnasium; and the managers of these teams personally confirm the contention...
...yarn are not too much insisted on. "Her House ont of Order" introduces the hackneyed characters of the wealthy and eccentric father, the beautiful daughter, and the rich lover, against the background of a revolving house and an automobile. On the whole, these three contributions serve to confirm the reviewer's belief that undergraduate fiction is most likely to be successful when it concerns itself with undergraduate life...
...Browning assumes the existence of God; and in his search to confirm his faith, he finds God manifest in power, knowledge and love. In all the vastness of nature, he finds God's power; and blended with power, he sees knowledge, for this power of God always works intelligently. But it is through His love that God shows himself most clearly to Robert Browning love for which the human heart cries out; infinite love which is the true explanation of infinite power and infinite knowledge...
...Jevons facilitates the comprehension of "comparative cost" and other complications in the doctrine of international values. The difficulty of comparing quantities of labor or productive power is lessened by Mangoldt's conception of a commodity produced both by the home and the foreign country. New views serve to confirm the old arguments in favor of free trade. Abstract theory admits indeed the possibility that a country may benefit itself economically by a manipulation of tariffs; but the methods indicated are so refined and involved as to strengthen the general presumption of leaving trade relations unimpered with when there...