Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College held in Boston last Monday, it was voted to fix the number of Austin Teaching Fellowships at twenty-four. These fellowships are not subject to application like other fellowships and scholarships, but are treated like assistantships and annual instructorships as regards the manner of appointment. Of the twenty-four fellowships twenty are under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and four under the Faculty of Medicine...
Owing to the large number of entries, it will be impossible to fix times of play agreeable to all players. Accordingly all matches will start at 3 and 3.30 o'clock each afternoon. If this, is not convenient for a player, he either must arrange with his opponent for another time on the same afternoon or default...
...first place, written laws are much safer, and more definite, than unwritten ones. They do not, it is true, have the sentiment that unwritten traditions have; but they are much more satisfactory in case of a difference of opinion. Further, they apportion duties definitely, and fix responsibility accurately--or at least, they should do so, if carefully made...
...established in unquestioned integrity the position of the judiciary as co-ordinate with and equal to the legislative branches of the government, and made the Supreme Court recognized as the power qualified to sanction or veto legislative acts. He laid down for all time the fundamental considerations which fix and govern the relative functions of the nation and the States, he defined the powers of the legislatures, and made clear the conception and theory of the American doctrine of constitutional law. He was not overweening in his assumption of the power of the court, but, on the other hand...