Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Class Day Committee is elected by the whole senior class, and full power is given to it to make the occasion as thorough a success as possible. Every man in the class should therefore feel it his duty to support this committee in whatever measures it may deem necessary. There is nothing unreasonable in its requirements. It simply asks that all members of the class shall see that the Yard on this day is kept free from an objectionable class of outsiders. The committee calls upon the class to aid them in carrying this out, and they have a right...
...board of Trinity College at Dublin, desiring to find some excuse for their unwillingness to admit women to lectures and degree examinations, have found out that the college's constitution will not allow them to, and declare that they would oppose an act of Parliament giving them the power unless said act should apply also to the two ancient English universities. This is a weak position, since Oxford and Cambridge settled that matter long ago by going ahead and opening lectures and examinations to women and now are likely to take the further step of giving degrees as they...
These points will be reckoned as follows: The number of kilos lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip in the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard the capacity of lungs will...
While we do not hold you or your team responsible for these accusations, it was in your power to have contradicted them and thus to have neutralized their serious effect, not only upon us but upon the sport...
...they finish, Fr. Benedict, the priest of the band, enters with his usual chronic cough, which can only be appeased by a finger or so of rum and no water. He is noted for his power as a singer, and he favors the pirates with the song of the Rover...