Word: present
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present system of transacting business in congress is unsatisfactory and would be greatly improved by the proposed exchnage:- Senator Hoar in North American Review, Feb. 1879, Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of our Government, pp. 4-8; Nation...
...responsible ministry would revolutionize our present form of government, and would be foreign to the spirit of our constitution:- Hare's American Constitutional Law, vol. 1, pp. 175-180; Overland Monthly, vol. 9, pp. 209, 210; Freeman's Presidnntial Government...
...would seem useless and even sarcastic for us to urge everyone to attend the class races which will take place this afternoon. The interest taken in rowing is at present at its height and as the crews appear to be more evenly matched than for many years past, every class is sure to be well represented and each crew will be well supported. Everyone must bear in mind that the men who have been working steadily and conscientiously for over six months for their respective crews, long ago ceased to consider the work as play, and have given up everything...
FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsal with Mr. Locke today at 12 o'clock. It will be the last opportunity for members to learn the Boating Song, to be sung at the concert on Friday. All must be present...
...receipt of a letter from a member of the sub-committee of the athletic committee which has control of the play grounds of the University, denying that the committee refused to allow the use of Jaryis for class games has present," as announced in our editorial of yesterday. We are a ware that the committee did not issue an order for the postponement of the class games till the 18th of May: they did however, assign Jarvis field to the Lecrosse team every afternoon until May 18 from five till six, with the exception of the few days on which...