Word: govern
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Spaniards were effectually hemmed in. Later, when it was seen that a long stay would be made, a thousand natives were hired at the arsenal, and work began with great energy. The natives, who are a turbulent set of half breeds, of some education, but totally unfitted to govern themselves, had, through association with the Spanish, become lazy and shiftless. A few months of American rule, however, cured them of this. When the insurgents rebelled the natives all quit and chin amen were hired in their places...
...These writings maintain that teaching should be restricted, and that no philosophy or science should be taught which goes against the Church. The most important of these Encyclics, entitled "Libertas," appeared in 1888. In this letter the Pope protests against the worship of liberty, saying that the Church must govern all worship, and defining liberty of speech and of teaching, as freedom to say or teach anything which the Church considers right. He considers liberty of conscience, not as freedom to worship God or not to worship Him, but as freedom to worship Him in different ways...
...first game of the Harvard and Yale series was played at New Haven, November 13, 1875. Harvard had formed a football club three years before, but the Universities could not agree upon a code of rules to govern the contest. Up to this time, Yale's game had consisted solely in kicking, while Harvard's allowed running with the ball, holding and passing. Yale made a concession and played under rules with which she was unfamiliar. As a result she was beaten, and the score, by the old system, was four goals and two touchdowns to nothing. In this game...
...plan announced yesterday, which will govern the Leiter cup series this year, seems a carefully considered one and well calculated to arouse and keep interest constant in the series. It will be remembered that last year's regulations divided the sixteen competing nines into four groups, with the intention of having each nine play every other in its group and then the four group champions playing off for first place. The diffculties proved to be that in two groups nines dropped out and in one of the others there was a tie, so that the number of games played...
...regulations which will govern competition for the debate with Princeton form a third step towards remedying the faults presented at the outset this year by the debating situation at Harvard. The formation of a Sophomore Club and the decision of the Union and Forum to consolidate are two improvements, and this new method of trial also promises to be beneficial...