Word: motions
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...fixed axis, including the steel cylinder, points to the celestial poles; the motion mounted on its upper end is from east to west over the meridian line, and from north to south across the celestial equator. The whole structure weighs more than 20 tons, and its delicate poise enables it to be moved without jar and with the utmost ease...
Article VIII-On petition of 50 men, or at the discretion of the class officers, any motion passed at a meeting of less than half the class shall be submitted to canvass...
...chairman of the executive committee, G. T. Kirby, of Columbia, discussed the refusal of the English universities to take part in an international meet this summer and closed by asking the individual college athletic associations to contribute to the Olympic fund. A motion to donate $1,000 to the expenses of the American Olympic team was passed unanimously by the delegates...
...annual business meeting was held at the Yale Club on December 23. The members of the Alumni Chess Committee present were W. Catchings '01, J. L. Lockwood, Jr., of Yale, and H. A. Keeler, of Columbia. A motion to increase the limit of play from 15 to 20 moves an hour was voted down 9 to 6. The following were appointed members of the International Cable Match Committee, which will have charge of the contest for the Rice trophy, now in possession of Oxford and Cambridge: E. R. Perry '03, A. S. Jamison, of Yale, J. B. Hunt, of Princeton...
...leader because he has few followers, for the true leader of men cares not for himself, but only for his cause and his followers. This is the metaphysic of leadership, simple in the extreme, the passion for the goal. True, that goal is not always reached, but there is motion toward it. Many a leader has gone through life with no recognition of his ambitions and efforts, only after death to have his plans utilized and his greatness appreciated. And what is this goal toward which nations, no less than individuals, are striving? We cannot say definitely what...