Word: ordered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intercollegiate cup will be held one year by the winning team. In order to gain permanent possession, however, a team must win it for ten successive years. In scoring, each individual match counts one, the championship being awarded to the team winning the greatest number of points...
...part in the seventeenth annual intercollegiate chess tournament at the West Side Republican Club, Broadway and 83d street, The following will represent the University; E. H. Guening 2 M., K. S. Johnson 2 G., W. W. Parshley '09, F. P. Byerly '11, and D. B. Childs '10, substitute. The order of play is as follows: Monday--Harvard vs. Yale, Columbia vs. Princeton; Tuesday--Harvard vs. Columbia, Yale vs. Princeton; Wednesday--Harvard vs. Princeton, Yale vs. Columbia. In order to gain permanent possession of the intercollegiate cup a team must win the championship for ten successive years. Columbia...
...developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished nothing. The working classes were driven to organize themselves politically in order to protect their rights. In Italy corruption was the cause of the socialist movement. Here the new party has not gained great power in the government, but it has driven out the dishonest men by opposing to them honest men in every election. In all countries, except the United States...
...every word he writes is not intended to be taken seriously. "The Quintessence of Ibsenism" must not be taken too literally, what he points out in it is that duty is not only the greatest, but also, the meanest bond in the world. He believes that a new social order will arise that will benefit men, under which our duty will be to ourselves...
Some of his plays criticise the present social order and some of the socialists of today. Among the former is one that speaks of war as a science of attacking a weaker opponent and getting out of the way of a stronger. In "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" he shows that an apparently helpless and unskilled woman is stronger in an emergency than the power of the sword. "Mrs. Warren's Profession," though known as "immorality dramatized," is really an enquiry into the self-complacency of modern society. "Candida" is a criticism of a modern socialist clergyman who is a good...