Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...RECENTLY made canvass of the Law School, to ascertain the relative representation of the various religions in that school, gives the following result: Whole number of students, 154; Episcopalians, 40; Unitarians, 32; Non-Sectarians, 22; Congregationalists, 20; Roman Catholics, 11; Agnostics, 8; Universalists, 5; Presbyterians, 4; Jews, 3; Methodists, 3; Baptists, 3; Atheists, 2; Dutch Reform...
...most assuredly has the better claim to its occupancy who has expended most labor and money upon its improvement. The improvements which he makes - in this case the wearing down and smoothing of the land - constitute his property in the land; and of the enjoyment of his property - the result of his labor - he can no more justly be dispossessed by an outsider than he could of a house which he had built upon the land. Of course his claim would not hold against the real owner of the soil, - the College, - for he pays no rent. But it most...
...under the direction of a committee elected by the tennis players from among themselves, this committee arbitrating in cases of dispute. This would, we think, be the fairest way for all concerned, and would prevent the unmannerly scramble to get on the ground first, which will surely result from the want of some systematic method of disposing of the courts...
...morbid self-consciousness; of sincerity, not of ceremony. He renounced the faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature to justify faith. The result was that Carlyle's faith was as firm as a rock, as any faith must needs be which comes not from authority, but from conviction...
...athletes. On this account we are averse to wholesale praise and to wholesale blame of the Nine, and we firmly believe that, if those who are foremost in circulating derogatory reports would put them in the shape of judicious suggestions to those connected with base ball, more good would result...