Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree should be required to submit a thesis upon some subject in his field of concentration, for, after all, an examination even of the most improved form places an emphasis on the marshalling rather than the creative faculties of man. The writing of a thesis ought not to prove particularly onerous in consideration of the abolition of the examination, and it should prove a source of gratification to the under graduate ego an opportunity to do something of one's own rather than a compulsion to complete an assignment by some-one else. Special honors should be granted...
...Dean who has had many years experience with incoming Freshmen. Another might well reprint the Register's description of the club system. Again, a series of articles on the organization and conduct of undergraduate activities--athletic, literary managerial, debating, dramatic, written by the present captains, managers, and presidents would prove of inestimable, value in acquainting the sub-Freshman with the nature of the world in which he is to live. Other headings suggest themselves at once...
General Sir Edward Hamilton Seymour appeared before the Committee to prove his claim to the duchy of Somerset, disputed by Lord Hertford. The case has been hanging fire since 1923, when the 15th Duke died, and hinged upon the validity of a marriage contracted by Colonel Francis Seymour and Leonora Hudson...
Along comes Lord Hertford to say that John Hudson did not die in 1786, but merely deserted his ship, returned to London where he died in 1791. Thus the descendants of the Seymour-Hudson union were bastards. Unfortunately for Hertford, he could not prove his story and the Committee accordingly allowed the claim of General Seymour, who became 16th Duke of Somerset; the first was Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew, Edward...
...considered the fact that, at the time the Sinclair concession was made, the Bolshevik Government was making recognition overtures to the Japanese Government and that Japanese troops were occupying Northern Sakhalin, which accounted for the inability of the Sinclair interests to work its concession. There is nothing to prove collusion between the Japanese and the Bolsheviki to void the Sinclair concession; but, in the Russo-Japanese treaty (Protocol B., Article 1) signed Jan. 20, 1925, it was expressly provided that Japanese were to receive "concessions for the exploitation of 50% of the area of every oil field in Northern Sakhalin...