Word: invalides
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...relation to agricultural colleges, nor of any legislative enactment, and, unless unreasonable, is valid; courts have the power to review the action of the board and faculty in certain cases, but can only do so where the power conferred on them is abused; an unreasonable by-law is invalid; but, before a court can declare a by-law void for unreasonableness, such unreasonableness must be demonstrably shown. It must be plainly and palpably unreasonable; in prosecutions to force or apply by-laws, courts will give them a reasonable construction with a view to sustaining them; the rule...
...Kittridge of Cincinnati says that Guiteau is not so much a lunatic as an invalid...
...There is one more thing. You know how to put on a shawl? The old lady is an invalid, and very particular. I don't know but that you'd better practise on me. [Snatches Mrs. Flynn's shawl from the table and, offering it to her, sits down again with his back toward...
...illness of a student. A mat is spread in the hall to stop the noise of walking, - a precaution which suggests that it be permanently kept up. A wicked Sophomore was heard to remark that if illness brings mats into the hall, it might be desirable to have an invalid constantly in the building...
That, dreading "invalid conclusion," I was quite at a loss what...