Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Contrary to the usual custom, there will be no meeting of the Yale Corporation this fall. The reason for this is the absence of President Dwight, in Europe. The letter of Chairman Troup of the Connecticut Democratic Committee to the Yale faculty regarding the Bryan incident on the Green in September will not be brought up until the next meeting of the corporation in January or February...
...winter at 168 Brattle street. The list of speakers includes a number of Asiatic thinkers. Beside these, Professor Josiah Royce, Ph. D., will speak on the "Problem of Job," Nov. 22; the Rev. Charles Carroll Everett, D. D., Dean of the Divinity Faculty, will discuss the relations of "Reason and Instinct," on Dec. 20; and Professor Crawford Toy, LL. D., will speak on the subject, "Ethies of the New Testament," on March...
...Congress should elect the President. (1) Frequent votes show this (Aowe, No. Am. Rev., 130, p. 120). (2) When the electoral plan was debated no objection was offered to re-eligibility. (c) None of the delegates who refused to sign the Constitution gave, in their public statements, as a reason for their refusal, the re-eligibility clause. II. The State Conventions, called to ratify the Constitution favored it (a) All the states offered many amendments (Von Holst, Const. History I, 60), but only three states offered amendments against the re-eligibility of the President (Howe...
...physical condition for Saturday's game. The result of the game with Cornell was rather in the nature of a surprise, as no one expected that the team would roll up such a score. It was expected that we would defeat Cornell, but by a much smaller score. The reason given by experts is that Cornell was weakened by the loss of two men who received injuries in the Harvard game of the previous week, and not the wonderful work of the Princeton team. The work of the team was no better than it should have been at this...
...manner of selling admission tickets at the Carlisle game. Even after the game was called a line of purchasers extending from the single ticket booth to the gate of Soldiers Field were still waiting their turn. The only persons benefited by such arrangements are the speculators. There is no reason under the sun why a college which attracts such great crowds should not provide adequate facilities for the purchase of tickets at the grounds...