Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bishop Brooks was never unhappy. When subject to the severest criticism he never lost his cheerful smile. Just criticism in fact, could not disdisplease him, though he never explained when criticised, but left it to time to correct misconception. When once decided, he was difficult to persuade, for he grounded his opinions well and felt secure in them...
...five-year agreement with the Harvard Boat Club may prevent the adoption of the undergraduate rule this year in rowing, and until that question is definitely settled no correct idea of the material at hand can be obtained, The track athletic team likewise, is bound by the rules of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association, and in this there are so many colleges that it is impossible to say whether or not it will adopt the undergraduate rule. The nine is not bound by any agreement, and it is almost safe to say that if it meets Harvard and Princeton...
...well here to correct a misunderstanding which many fellows in college have received in regard to the bearing of the new rule upon the Harvard-Yale game at Springfield next fall. There is a clause in the five year agreement governing these games to the effect that they shall be played under the rules of the intercollegiate association. It seems then at first sight that Yale will insist next fall on our playing upon the same terms with which she meets Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania; in other words that she will dictate the conditions under which Harvard...
...Recent decisions of the courts have made it almost impossible to inforce the act, and unless its defects are remedied, it is doomed. The people have looked to this act as their great hope and will not witness its destruction without a protest. A refusal now to correct or at least to endeavor to remedy the existing wrongs so keenly felt, will carry us far towards the socialistic extreme. The common law and the statutes of the several states have failed to preserve to the people their rights against the railway corporations. The Interstate Commerce Act has been found inadequate...
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Nov. 21, 1892."The students of the University of North Carolina, as a slight token of their appreciation of the character and services of a man who deliberately surrendered the Presidency in order to instruct the people in correct principles of government and especially of taxation - who in short preferred to teach the people rather than rule them - do hereby resolve to send ten delegates to the second inauguration of Grover Cleveland, and do earnestly request all the colleges and universities of the United States to unit +++ grand student demonstration in honor of our great political...