Word: overeers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The average attendance this year at the meetings of the Harvard Union has been 150. At one meeting there were over 300 present.
"The more liberal policy recently adopted by the Harvard board of overseers in permitting the nine to play with professional teams as petitioned by their alumni all over the country, is another striking proof of the influence that alumni associations may have in settling undergraduate difficulties. In this particular instance...
II. By the provisions of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the United States agreed never to exercise "exclusive control over the said canal," "to guarantee the neutrality thereof," and "to invite other states to enter into similar stipulations."- United States Treaties, 377-380.
VI. In such construction, the Nicaragua route possesses great advantages over the Panama route in; (a) ease and economy of construction; (b) natural approaches; (c) distance saved, etc.- North Am. Rev., vol. 132, 107; Ninteenth Century, vol. 23, 195.
That the right of every man to rule is born in him and is not given by one man is the first letter in our political alphabet. Therefore it is that we have no right to surrender our conscience, our responsibility, our duty, or, in fact, any one of these...