Word: entrust
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When it is considered that the tables seat from twelve to fourteen men, six seems a very small proportion to which to entrust the privilege of reserving the table. Since within the last year club tables have been in all the greater demand owing to their limited number, it seems all the more unreasonable that only six men should be considered to constitute a large enough part of a club of twelve or fourteen to monopolize the control of a table to the exclusion of others...
...long existed a desire for some definite knowledge about the workings of the Athletic Committee. During the past two years there has been a steadily growing feeling that the Committee is doing a great deal for Harvard athletics, in fact that it is the safest body to which to entrust the athletic welfare of the college. The students, therefore, want to be solidly behind the Committee and in a position to support it intelligently. Doubtless there are many men in college who have found themselves called upon to defend the action of the Athletic Committee on some matter...
...work done by regular professors and privatdocenten in "general" and "special" courses compared with that of "full professors" and "instructors" at Harvard and Cornell in elementary and advanced courses. He shows that the tendency is in Germany "to let the older men do the bulk of fundamental instruction-to entrust the special investigation and research mainly to the younger men. On the other hand, at Harvard there is no fraction, at Cornell a very small one, of professors who teach elementary subjects only, whereas more than half of the instructors at Harvard, and nearly three-fourths at Cornell are engaged...
...reform. Mr. Grimcke, as the representative of the colored Democrats said he supposed he was present to give color to the meeting. He spoke forcibly and convincingly in favor of the Democratic candidates and their principles, and said that it was to their hands that the colored people should entrust their welfare...
...unjust and despotic ascendancy of England over the Irish people at the present time, he went on to point out how this could be remedied by a suitable scheme of Home Rule. He also maintained that the Irish had advanced sufficiently in political training to render it safe to entrust them with self-government. He closed his case by expressing his firm conviction that Home Rule would soon be an accomplished fact, because of its recent rapid advance, and because it embodies a principle which always succeeds...