Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of the semi-annual examination at West Point, 25 per cent. of the fourth class has been dropped...
...prosaic in character to have an engraving to illustrate the work it does. There is one of the largest colleges of this country where it is the business of each sophomore class to choose a board of eight or ten editors to bring out their publication, and the result is that the work appears in a month or two at latest after the opening of their Junior year; and not only this but every class takes particular pains to surpass the work of those before them, so that the result is more and more gratifying every year. The range...
...This thorough system of training for class races was introduced several years ago by our late coach, Col. Bancroft. Now that the onerous duty of coaching the crews falls upon the respective captains, it is strongly to be hoped that no relaxation in the thoroughness of the training will result. Our class crews, which are unequalled by those of Yale or Columbia, which have largely contributed to Harvard's success on the water, should inspire as much interest and meet with as much encouragement now as formerly...
...meeting was called to order by president French, who stated that the business to come before them was to take some action upon the letter of resignation of the advisory committee. The letter was read by Mr. Parker and then a vote was called for. The result of the vote showed that the meeting was heartily in favor of accepting the action taken by the committee. A motion followed to thank the graduate committee for their past efforts in behalf of college boating. The further business consisted of voting an appropriate testimonial to Col. Bancroft, the late coach...
...there is not in a bad land system, but in the absence of every industry except. agriculture. She, too, had manufactures once, but England strangled them, when the potato famine came, the effects were terrible. The population had nothing to which they could turn their hands, starvation was the result. The absence of alternative occupation is the true cause of the poverty of Ireland. A country which is without some alternative occupations cannot create them in the face of open competition. Protection, she must have. The lecture then closed, after a rapid glance at tariff legislation in the United States...