Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...argument he reasons a posteriori, from a priori grounds, to put it paradoxically; for it is usually considered the first duty of an inductive reasoner to collect data, but this investigator shows a truly Spinozan disregard for mere facts. In order, therefore, to disentangle his argument from the maze of rhetorical rhapsody in which, like the fabled cuttle-fish of the deep, he shrouds his thought, an analysis is necessary. We find, then...
...Order of the day now pending: "Resolved, that members of secret societies should not be allowed to act as jurors, or serve as witnesses in courts of law." Offered by Mr. Sprigg, of Illinois...
...satisfactory choice of officers through the medium of a so called open election. If the non-society men sustain the action of the societies, we may look for the best results of a free-choice of the whole class. But evidently it will not be found enough, in order to secure these desirable results, to merely vote for an open election; for unless each member of the class votes in the spirit of such an election, with an eye single to class interests, nothing has been gained to Class Day itself. If an open election recommends itself to any particular...
...stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause. The next event was a one-mile walk between Green, '76; Taylor, '77; and Legate, '77. Taylor took the lead at once, and gained steadily on each quarter, Green and Legate following in the order named. Taylor came in an easy winner in 7.33 1/2, Green being second in 8.15, and Legate third. In the running high jump the contestants were Danforth, '77; Walker, '77; and Hubbard, '78. Danforth and Walker failed at 4 ft. 10 in., leaving the field clear to Hubbard, who succeeded...
...Reading-Room has recovered its footing, the Boat-Clubs are fast sinking into the slough of debt. It would seem that it is almost entirely through Mr. Blakey's generosity that the clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there is an impression...