Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field of three or four acres is necessary. To make the game a general recreation for students at large would require all the unoceeupied land for miles around. President Eliot took the other horn of the dilemmanamely, that base ball should be supplanted by some game which requires less territory. Such a game is lawn tennis. The Jarvis base ball grounds, if laid out in double courts would furnish tennins grounds for over one hundred players...
...Union was called to order at 7.40 by Pres. Saunders. The question was,"Resolved, that less than the whole number of a jury should be competent to render a verdict in all cases." Mr. Boyden, '86, opened the debate for the affirmative. He argued that the present system of juries allows that while the better part of the population is exonerated, the majority are not of exceptional intellect. It is very difficult in criminal cases to impanel a jury who are wholly unpredjudiced, while in civil cases a higher order of men are required than we get at present...
...expected that the graduating class at Cornell will number 67. This is one less than the class of '83 graduated...
...Harvard Union will meet this evening. The question for debate is, "Resolved, that less than the whole number of a jury should be competent to render a verdict in all cases." Mr. E. J. Smith, '85, and Mr. W. C. Boyden, '86, are the principal disputants for the affirmative and Mr. E. C. McInnes, S. S., and Mr. H. E. Fraser, '86 for the negative. This question has been brought prominently before the public by the recent Cincinnati riot and an interesting discussion upon it may be expected...
APRIL 14. MONDAY.Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Question: "Resolved, That less than the whole number of a jury should be competent to render a verdict in all cases...