Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...person who would devote the necessary time to a prolonged inquiry, and who would be willing to run the risk of involving himself in possible controversial or legal complications; secondly, the impossibility of compelling the attendance of witnesses and of taking testimony under oath, and finally the probably barren result to be obtained by such an inquiry...
...blows under the belt were allowed before disqualification. The time of taking this stand was at first deemed inopportune by the committee, on account of its nearness to the end of the season, but in view of the wide discussion which the action of the committee has caused, the result may be more desirable in the end. The position of the Harvard faculty has always been peculiar. At other colleges athletics are allowed to take their own course; at Harvard physical training is recognized as an important branch of education, and the faculty, therefore, 'interferes.' Foot-ball is too good...
...much for the English system, which has been held by President Porter to be better than our own in several respects. As to the result of the system Canon Farrar goes on to say : "This is the sort of 'kelp and brick dust' used to polish the cogs of their mental machinery ! And when, for a good decade of human life, and those its most invaluable years, a boy has stumbled on this dreadful mill-round, without progressing a single step, and is plucked at his matriculation for Latin prose, we flatter ourselves, forsooth, that we have been giving...
...Times thinks that, "as a result of the boat-house accident a new boat-house will doubtless be built in the near future...
...case-why can they not have the advantage of the already announced rates? If Mr. Clark feels bound to withdraw his announcement, can not the Co-operative Society secure reduced rates for its members? In either case a very considerable saving to the students going to New York would result...