Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gain an end which is valuable only so far as it is genuine." That this practice, however, which is both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...
...changed. The faculty is utterly powerless. If more strict police measures are adopted the evil will be stimulated. Is there another way than by interference on the part of students themselves? Would not a trial of offenders by their own mates so fortify the sentiment that should prevail, that a student would think no more of cribbing, even for forty or fifty per cent., than he would of making a plan for hazing? This is a question for students to consider, and this communication is written to ask for opinion either pro or con. There are objections in matters...
...votes cast. A second meeting will be held Thursday, at which, it is hoped, an election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...
...self-reliance among those who have been afflicted by the interfering laws of the state. The death-rate, however, has considerably decreased in those districts. The English leaders in politics have begun to see that a voluntary system is not sufficient. Gladstone says that economic grounds cannot always prevail, but morality and charity must be considered. The English socialist now wishes to have the state take control of hotels, banks and ultimately the land. The increase of the amount of machinery in use, rolled up money for the rich, made the poor poorer, and destroyed the lives of many...
...having had a run on some one of the many beautiful days we have had. The Bicycle Club supports a president, captain, and sub-captain, and I fail to see why some one of these officers should not have called a run long before this. The opinion seems to prevail among members of the club, that if the management does not wake up this spring, the death of the Bicycle Club will be recorded next year...