Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elicit more enthusiastic attention than most other events, yet no complaint could be made on that score for Saturday's meeting, despite the absence of either of these events. That Harvard can bring out so large a number of contestants with a programme so varied, is yet another proof of the popularity of general athletics among her students. After such a series of successes as these three meetings, the college can well appreciate the peculiar advantages and opportunities it possesses in its new gymnasium; while the beneficence of the donor is felt more and more clearly...
...first proof of the scheme for the annuals in June has been posted...
...HERALD: This morning one of the college papers printed the proposed scheme and what purported to be the standing rules of the Dining Association. This appears extraordinary in the light of the proceedings of the last meeting of the directors. The directors authorized the vice-president to have a proof of the standing rules struck off for their use, that alterations might more easily be made at their next meeting, before the regulations were finally printed. A motion was also made that a single college journal be furnished with a copy of these rules, on condition that it print...
...intimation that the beseigers were about to lay certain petitions before the directorate, asking for an investigation into the consul's management of affairs, he determined to be precedent, and himself demanded an investigation, appealing to the fair-minded men and women of the city, and challenging to the proof any one who had any charge to make against the consul, touching his fitness for the consulship. The directorate appointed a committee of investigation. But at this point the consul seemed to retreat from the unfamiliar field of open contest, into the haze of secret sessions...
Geology Class. - Mr. Blunderwood (earnestly): "Professor, will you please give us the proof of the former gaseous condition of the earth...