Word: establish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tufts College has received about $40,000 by the will of Miss Harriet H. Fago of Marlboro. This sum will probably be used to establish a professorship of English literature, a vacancy which the college has long felt...
...audiences which attended all the lectures by each gentieman. In most of the controversies between the advocates of free tade and protection, each speaker is very often in the habit of stating his own ideas, of which by the way he is very positive, without thinking it necessary to establish his views with solid facts, or with solid facts to refute the views of his opponents. Free traders as a rule express great contempt for their opponents, the protectionists, and smile in a pitying way at the follies and mistaken theories of the protectionists, often prefacing their remarks with...
...difficult to approach the subject of British interference in our tariff legislation with seriousness. There is not a scintilla of evidence that any influence had been exerted from that quarter. It is a ridiculous idea that the Cobden Club has ever used its influence to establish free trade in the United States. The truth is that the tariff reform agitation is hindered because its advocates have not a personal interest in the matter. In fact, nothing would so hurt the British manufacturer as the lowering of the duty on certain articles which enter into the manufacture of many commodities...
...French and German languages, are given by Whitelaw Reid as the indispensable acquirements of a journalist. While, of course, any student can get all these studies from the curriculum as at present constituted, it would certainly be a great gain for the profession if a course could be established which would give men the same help that the moot courts of the Law School give students in law. While Harvard is in the midst of such sweeping reforms in her requirements, why can she not be the first to establish and sustain such a course...
...Articles of Agreement establish four grades of offenses; (1), deliberate falsehood; (2), grave misdemeanors; (3), major offenses; (4), minor offenses; and they also provide a penalty or penalties, for each grade...