Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nature to the English Henley Regatta, to take place on the Thames at New London. A committee has been appointed by the Board of Trade to put the matter before the college and amateur rowing interests of the country and if possible to establish the movement on a firm footing...
Particular stress was laid by the speaker on the importance of the club to the church. A firm and closely related organization was needed, the speaker said, to place the tenets of the Catholic religion properly before the student body. After this appeal for consistent effort a short sketch of the work accomplished during the last quarter century in the religious life of the country was given and the address closed with an outline of what might be hoped for during the coming years...
Neither team scored in the first half. Princeton came the nearest to it when, by a series of mass plays at the tackles, the ball was advanced to the seven yard line. Here, however, the Harvard line stood firm and held for four downs. Brown then kicked to the 45 yard line...
...alliance of the United States with England would be the most reasonable and effective means of restoring order. A. It would be firm. (1) The people of England and the United States are one in (a) race, (b) language, (c) laws, (d) religion, and (e) in their general opinion on this question. B. Such an alliance would be universally recognized as a moral alliance, and not one designed to promote any scheme of territorial aggrandizement. (1) England would not be allowed either by other nations or by public opinion at home to use this occasion to increase her territorial advatages...
...most curious of the plants to be seen is the Laceleaf plant (onvirandra fenestralis). It is an aquatic variety, the leaves being entirely under water. As the name suggests, the leaves of the plant are formed only of the network of veins, and the appearance of the delicate but firm outlines of the dark green tracery just beneath the surface of the water is odd and beautiful...