Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history of the currency is an all-important question in American finance to-day. The legal-tender decisions in the United States illustrate important questions arising under the Constitution, and the power of the executive is shown pre-eminently. The court, if it had had an opportunity to decide upon the constitutionality of the legal-tender laws, before those laws had been passed by Congress, a different decision might have been made. As it was, the laws came to the court with all the prestige of the approval of a co-ordinate branch of the government. The decisions...
...nine's reception by the crowd at Princeton is inexplicable. That Princeton, Harvard's old ally, should descend to the tactics which are held in such general contempt is beyond our power of explanation. On Saturday the Harvard spectators will show the Princeton men how visitors should be treated on strange grounds...
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...bring victory from almost sure defeat. The freshmen played their best, but were out fielded and out-batted. But inasmuch as they did their best to win from Yale, they should receive the credit therefor and not be "jumped upon" for not doing more than was in their power...
...glad to do all in our power to advance the cause of good feeling between colleges, and when Harvard is in the wrong we will say so honestly and fearlessly, but when cheering descends into yelling, no matter by whom it is done, we shall consider it our duty to proclaim such conduct "muckerish" and unworthy an intercollegiate athletic contest...