Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only veracity, but the strength of the oath was taken into account; for instance, a parson's oath was worth twice as much as a deacon's. In trials by arbitration, the judge is the mediating power. In closing, Professor Vinogradoff said that every country has been through the period of customary law, proceeding from downright struggle to compromise, and that this advance was the greatest curb...
...over the ownership, the unearned increment of value is captured by the city and no difficulty whatever is experienced. When the franchise is perpetual, however, and the question arises as to how private corporations are to be influenced to charge fair scale prices, the difficulty is almost insuperable. Short period franchises are urged by many and especially by English legislators, but it is questionable whether they are beneficial. In any enterprise it is almost certain that initial losses will occur, and short period franchises are not sufficiently attractive to draw capital to the work. The effect of the short period...
...Francis, defending the position taken by the government, presented the problem of Russian conditions from a point of view opposite to that of Aladyin and Tschaykovsky, who spoke in the Union about two weeks ago. He said that the Russian people had just awakened from a period of inertia, and a flush of activity is now passing over them: but it is difficult to find any moral or intellectual impulse in this activity. On the country, licentiousness and gambling were never more prevalent. The great cry of the people has been for more land, but it is a well-known...
Engineering 4a, Plane Surveying, will begin the last day of the final examination period in June. Students who have an examination on that day may remain in Cambridge for the examination and go to Camp on the afternoon train or the early morning train on Friday. No change has been made in the course...
...Camp will be open, as heretofore, only 11 weeks, and no student will be required under any conditions to be in residence there more than this period...