Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally...
...graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare shave the awkward corner looming in the distance, and how soon he shall venture to call upon stroke for that final spurt which shall bring the taper bow within bumping distance of the boat which they pursue. Stroke by stroke the interval is lessened; the cries on the bank grow louder and more excited, as the partisans of each urge them on to greater efforts. The pursuers pull themselves together...
...unity and good feeling which have attended the class of '83 at Harvard at all times, even in the awarding of final honors of office, is an object of remark. - [New York Post...
...final game of foot-ball for the college championship resulted in a decisive victory for Yale, who consequently retains the championship for another year. The snow had been cleared off the field so that the grounds were in a very fair condition. Princeton won the toss, and selected the west end, from which a strong breeze was blowing, which materially aided her side. Peace kicked into touch at 2.45 P. M., and the game was started amidst great excitement and enthusiasm among the spectators, who had been waiting for an hour for the fun to begin. For the first twenty...
...protection to young industries, in its application to the United States. The essential part of this argument, he said, lay in the fact that the obstacles to the establishment of the young industries were supposed to be temporary and artificial, of such a character as would not prevent the final establishment of the industry, even without protection. Then he considered the course of industrial history and of protective legislation during the period from 1816 to about 1840. Before the tariff of 1816 there was no effective protective legislation, hence it is only to the period after 1816 that the question...