Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then further our amicable relations by all the means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority, - let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, - our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor...
...arrange the preliminaries of the Yale and Harvard race. The delegates were instructed to vote for Springfield as the place, and the latter part of June as the time for the regatta. No further instructions were given the delegates, but the Executive Committee reserves to itself the power of vetoing any decisions which meet with disapproval...
...boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with the graduates, and the experience of those who have been here before us would undoubtedly be of benefit to our boating interests. The Executive...
...establishment of a new professorship and of an admission examination, the latter to take effect in the year 1877-78. In giving the reasons for this innovation, it is shown that, in addition to its necessity in a first-class school, an institution which has real prestige and power will make a money profit by raising its standard, the improved class of students greatly enlarging the reputation and influence of the institution. Here, again, the Western States have increased their representation, supplying now about one fourth of the students, while New England supplies one half, and the number from...
...their servant. If we supply these keys they should give us some authority over the servants. We should have the right to make them responsible for our property if it is intrusted to their care, and if they are not responsible to us, we should have it in our power to appeal to some one in authority who would punish their carelessness, and that too not at our expense...