Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Turkey, today, is no match for Russia. Constantinople is a fixed point in Russian policy, and only the influence of England wards off the inevitable result of the clever diplomacy and vast resources of the empire of the Tsars.
Few colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence...
Now that the election is a thing of the past, all eyes are fixed upon the eleven, and its work is eagerly watched in these last practice games preceding the struggle for the championship. There is great excitement in regard to the outcome of the games with Yale and Harvard...
Mr. J. A. Bailey, L. S., then spoke first on the negative. The tendency of our time is to concentration of capital into a few hands. Industry is conducted on a large scale because this is the best way. Business men and scholars alike pronounce competition a failure wherever much...
The managers of the Harvard Assemblies this year will be L. H. Morgan, H. M. Sears, W. S. Ellis and R. F. Perkins. The assemblies will probably be held at held at Pierce Hall, instead of at Berkeley Hall as heretofore. The dates have not yet been fixed.