Word: performance
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...virtue of the power to perform the rite of marriage, the clergyman becomes a civil officer, responsible to the state. Ignorance of the laws of divorce often leads the clergyman into unhappy blunders...
...Executive Committees of the Princeton Athletic Association was held last Saturday, and a radical change in the management of athletics was brought forward for consideration. The new scheme is to abolish the office of University Treasurer, and to have managers of the various associations instead of treasurers. To perform the duties of these offices there will be elected a general athletic treasurer, who will take charge of all accounts and moneys handled by the various associations. The proposed amendments to the constitution provide that this treasurer shall receive a fixed salary for his services, and shall not be pursuing...
...hold the superintendent directly responsible for the service of his men. Furthermore, it is impossible to procure enough Cambridge policemen for this duty without engaging a host of substitute men of a distinctly less intelligent nature than the Pinkerton specials. It requires the full Cambridge police force to perform the ordinary duties of watchmen about the grounds on Class Day. Finally the manager of the 'varsity eleven and all other gentlemen who have had occasion to handle large crowds about college, strongly urge the committee to engage anybody but policemen...
...State supervision and control is a direct step towards state centralization and the destruction of local autonomy. - (a) The modern state is unable to perform well its present functions - (b) The attention of the state in this matter is less harmful today than excessive intrusion: Beaulieu 156 - (c) All Anglo Saxon nations hold local self-government to be the essence of freedom...
...George A. Gordon, who spoke of the responsibilities of young men to society. Everything, said he, is brought into the presence of moral responsibility, wealth, character, genius, and youth. Youth cannot take upon itself the responsibilities of wealth or of genius, but is responsible for its own powers, to perform what is befitting...