Word: entrusting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...seems most wise, if in this country, Saturday and Sunday do not afford sufficient time for specific religious instruction, and since churches are evidently unwilling to entrust parents with imparting such teaching, that the public school should be made acceptable to all denominations...
...influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides for the actions of those to whom we must entrust the agitation of this reform after our own college lives have ended...
...dignified proportions of a riot, as many of our sister colleges can testify, and as the Boston press reports of Thursday's rush may be cited to prove. Another point which the students engaged in the melee should have remembered is, that the faculty may think it unwise to entrust the control of student matters to a conference committee, of whose members many are to be drawn from the two classes chiefly at fault in the recent display of boyish thoughtlessness. We feel sure that the scenes of Thursday night will not be enacted again, yet that they should have...