Word: might
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...England's right to interfere. The affirmative believed that the best method to settle the so-called grievances was the grant of an adequate franchise to the Uitlanders. Such a franchise meant security, strength and prosperity for the South African Republic itself. The grievances of the Uitlanders might well be summed up in the phrase "in equality of rights." Examples of this subversion of all interests in favor of the Boers were that only Boer children were allowed in the schools and that all trials were controlled solely by Boers. The claims of the British were, not to take away...
...performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...adoption of the elective principle to the proposal to take the logical step and satisfy "the demands of those who were not afraid to trust the elective system even in the lower schools. Almost every party was willing to vote for this, upon one condition--that it, the party, might put its own valuation on each study and have its own way as to how much value should be required for admission." So that the whole question of electives in admission requirements shook itself down to the practical one of "'points,' and combinations of 'points'," which finally produced the system...
These lectures were founded by the late Lord Gifford, judge in the high court of justice in Scotland, who gave 80,000 pounds at his death to the Universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Saint Andrews, in order that they might arrive at a clearer conception of natural religion. The lectures, last year, were very successful and are now being printed. The first half, under the title of "The World and the Individual," by Professor Royce, will appear in a few days and will be used in his courses. The subjects of the lectures are always the same, but different...
...themselves, and regardless of the rest. The members of these three clubs were practically pledged to vote for that slate, so making a solid body larger than any other that could easily be formed. In this way they were able to elect their own candidates, even though they might not have been the choice of the majority...