Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theological Seminary in 1867-68. Quite a percent of the students were manly fellows who had been soldiers in the Civil War and they were rejoiced to hear Beecher and they noted in the great congregations a majority of men, yet you say Was "men there as a ever rule a did not manlier like thing him." than Beecher facing the English mobs and doing more for his country than any other individual by his speeches ? It can be said that some of the strongest and best men of our country, who made the closest study of the case, believe...
Presbyterian rule has held that only desertion and adultery are legitimate grounds for divorce. In this Presbyterians have been more liberal than most Christian denominations. Most admit only adultery as a divorce cause. A Presbyterian minister might properly marry a divorce only if the person were the innocent derelict of desertion or the innocent cheat of adultery. And, because the minister has had free discretion to judge marital innocence, amiable pew-holders occasionally have tried to strain his goodwill...
...Cambridge University, England, the three year course is the rule, while at Oxford, although the four year degree is more common, it is possible to take a degree in three years. At Harvard, although the work of four years may be completed in three years by taking extra courses and by summer study, the student must wait four years for his degree...
...spite of this salutation, my letter is not directed to you. I address rather the editors of the Lampoon, and in thus doing hope for an exception to the CRIMSON rule against unsigned letters, as well as a temporary burial of the inter-publication hatchet. This is a matter of college honor, not to be thwarted I hope by petty feeling...
...Tartar Rule in Russia", Professor Kapovich, Sever...