Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Corporation will formally receive today the resolution adopted and sent to them by the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, vesting its executive committee with power to consider a union with the University, one the general plan briefly described in the CRIMSON of May 7. The resolution is as follows...
...animals, Mr. Seton said, we find the beginnings of the power of reasoning. For example, the wolves of North America adapted themselves to their new surroundings after the advent of civilized man. Cattle-rangers in the West undertook a systematic extermination of the gray wolves which molested their herds, until in 1889 all seemed to have vanished. Gradually, however, the wolves learned to avoid the poisoned baits and traps, and communicated this knowledge to others. Adaptation to new conditions brought safety, and wolves are now almost as numerous as ever...
...gave Catholics a basis for social action. Encouraged by this, a few priests and laymen, including M. de Mun, formed a sort of socialist party called the "Democrates chretiens." The bishops and the Holy See feared the outcome of this party's tendencies, and it failed to gain political power because the more radical democrats had a repugnance toward the church...
...lengths. The first crew gained steadily and overtook the second at Harvard Bridge, where the third led by about a length. A quarter of a mile below the bridge the first crew overtook the third, with the second half a length behind. From this point the first crew lacked power and a strong drive and hurried the recover. The positions of the boats remained practically unchanged to the finish, the third crew crossing the line a few feet ahead of the first, which was in turn about half a length ahead of the second. All three crews rowed about twenty...
During the past few days the crews have improved to some extent in applying power to the stroke more quickly and in pulling the stroke more quickly and in pulling the stroke through to the finish more strongly. Bad faults, however, still remain in slowness at the beginning of the shoot and hurrying of the last part of the recover...