Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suitable form for the debate. Judges will be selected the same as last year, but three suggestions were made: that preferably men should not be chosen who had written on the question of the debate; the judges should be requested personally to serve; and that if possible, a partial representation of instructors in English or Argumentation should be obtained among the judges. The regulations of last year's debate, including one providing that each university uphold the negative at home, were adopted. The question will be announced February 3, and the three debates will occur March...
Again, in 1879, there was a threatened repetition of these horrors. There was a partial blight and many evictions followed. It was then that the Land League was formed by the peasants to try and better conditions. The next year Mr. Gladstone turned his attention to the land troubles and secured temporary relief, by the passage of a bill, until in 1885 the great Land Purchase Act was passed. This measure provided that after the landlord and tenant had agreed upon a fair price for the land they should jointly apply to the state which gave the purchase money...
...order to preserve our intercollegiate athletics a petition has been drawn up to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an effort to point out to that body that partial abolition or curtailment of intercollegiate athletics is not a remedy for athletic distraction, and offering a substitute remedy which promises to be far more effective...
Personally, I must acknowledge that I am more partial to the major sports; but this lack of fair play is what brings forth my protest. Is the man who runs on the track every day during the winter supposed to do his college work conscientiously, while the basketball player neglects his? Such a supposition is ob- viously absurd. Either both athletes will study, or both will not do any work. If one has to give up his athletics while the other keeps on exercising, the result would be that he who had no incentive to keep off probation would...
...required at this time from most students is $90, but a few graduate and special students whose fees for partial work amount to less than that sum are required to pay in advance their entire tuition fee for the academic year...