Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept, and the monies expended should take place, new life and better financiering would undoubtedly follow...
...fashion." Mr. Perry is an eloquent and skillful advocate, but we must not forget that "fashion" in such matters is usually right: if it makes a favorite of one poet, it is because he has something to say or, at least, says nothing in an attractive manner; if it disregards another, we may find the reason in some defect which for the time or forever condemns him to oblivion. If Mr. Jones had but little joy in his life we can but grieve for him. It will not lighten his pain, now that he is dead, if his volume...
...that 'Unquestionably Congress can as little impair the obligation of contracts as a State," No court could declare a law of Congress unconstitutional merely upon the ground that it impaired the obligation of a contract. There is sometimes a certain vagueness and lack of confidence in our author's manner of discussing controverted questions, e. g., as regards the subject last mentioned, which is probably traceable to the circumstances under which his essay was composed...
...freshmen speak in high terms of the gentlemanly manner in which they were entertained by their opponents of Wednesday. Perhaps an editorial which appeared in the Yale News of Wednesday morning had something to do with Yale's refraining from that discourteous and unfair treatment which characterized her tactics not many years since...
...what is called "society week." Monday night the abolition of the old sophomore societies was celebrated by a procession of the students about the campus, cheering all of the college buildings and singing "Omega Lambda Chi." Tuesday night the Junior society elections were given out in the customary manner. The Psi Upsilon and D. K. E. men enter the campus simultaneously from the north and south ends respectively, headed by calcium lights and singing their society songs. The members-elect of the Sophomore class are assembled in several rooms, and the juniors rush in and shake hands with them...