Word: meant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University Debating Council last night sent the following question to Yale for the annual intercollegiate debate, which will be held in Sanders Theatre on December 7: "Resolved, That the further restriction of immigration is undesirable." By "further restriction" is meant the application of additional tests with the object of diminishing materially the number of immigrants. But the nature and practicability of such tests are not to be discussed. Yale will have the choice of sides...
...following stipulations are made: (1) "Required" means that this should be the regular rule, without prejudice, however, to the right of a law faculty, to admit, in exceptional cases, students who do not possess a bachelor's degree; (2) by a "law school controlled by a university", is meant a school whose policy and methods are determined by the trustees of the university. The debate will be held at Princeton on May 18 and the choice of sides will be made public by the Yale team on April...
Elder then interpreted the question. By ownership is meant absolute ownership; but if the city should own the street railways, it could operate them itself or lease them. In either case, the affirmative will try to prove municipal ownership desirable. The question is one of practical benefit, not of legal possibility. Legal difficulties such as the debt limit, can easily be adjusted if public ownership appears beneficial...
...That the rules shall be recodified and illustrated by means of pictures to show more clearly what is meant by holding and other offences against the rules...
...America we do not mean intercollegiate football this year, nor last year, nor the year before; nor do we mean in any one locality more than another. We are not considering football at Harvard, nor at Princeton, nor at any special university or college. By intercollegiate football is meant an institution, a noble and blood-stirring institution, which takes its form in football contests between the colleges of America. It has been a gradual growth from insignificant contests to the great game of today, in which keen and friendly rivals struggle for supremacy. We must, therefore, as must the gentlemen...