Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the Harvard faculty see fit to pass the resolutions advised by the committee of the board of overseers. It would be contrary to the ideas and feelings of the undergraduates and, as far as my experience has gone, of the large body of graduates here as well. If left to themselves the tendency of the students is to correct many of the abuses which the overseers wish to put an end to. Only last year, they voted voluntarily to confine the baseball games to Yale and Princeton, so that the number...
...very perceptibly to diminish the interest of the students in that college as a whole by removing one of the most effective and legitimate means of arousing their loyalty to it. As I say, I shall be very much surprised and disappointed if the faculty see fit to pass the resolutions...
...Congress should pass further acts in order to stop the technical evasion of the present law: Finance Rept., pp, 365-370 passim; Boston Herald, cited above...
...crews will be at the Brookline Bridge, ready for the class race on Wednesday, May 2d, promptly at 5p. m., at which time the draw will be opened for them to pass...
...reduction of taxation. (e) It was a precursor of similar and worse bills. (f) The money was to go to States and not to people whence it came. (g) It would induce extravagance and waste like that of 1837. (h) It was a log-rolling measure and likely to pass without attention...