Word: manifest
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...choice of the students. The republican procession seems to be more popular still, as many Cleveland men prefer it to the democratic procession. If we may draw conclusions from a comparison of this vote with the canvass of last spring for candidates for the presidency, there is a manifest falling off in the Republican party. Last spring 878 students were in favor of republican and 153 of democratic candidates. This fall there is a gain of about 300 for the democratic, and the same loss for the republican candidates. The number of independents at the college may therefore...
Although the examination feature of the new system is regretted by some, the other changes are so good that they more than counterbalance the evil. The advantage of the printed subjects are so numerous and manifest that we need not mention them. The new instructors in forensics are evidently determined to arouse more interest in their work and hope to be able to offer the students more instruction than heretofore...
...class of '86 at Harvard had a class supper followed by songs and speeches, last Friday evening. This seems to be the only way at Harvard to manifest and cherish class spirit. [Yale News...
...number of Life we were astonished to find at the head of the page, (it was the fourth page, by the way, where there are no illustrations) the unfamiliar title The Yale Quip. Not that the Quip is in any respect like the journal of which it is a manifest imitation, from title page to the last advertisement, except in its typographical work. For we must confess that the paper is a great disappointment. After hearing its praises heralded abroad by the News in such terms of flattery, we expected something better...
...equally manifest that the above resolution, while perhaps not seriously injurious to most of the great colleges, would operate most disadvantageously to many smaller colleges where still athletic sports are creditably maintained...