Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...voting for Marshals, attention is called to the following rule: "Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First, Second, and Third Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for First Marshal shall be First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal; the other candidate being Third Marshal...
...class 35 per cent, and of the first year class 38 per cent. In the entering class there are 89 Harvard graduates, 112 graduates of other colleges, and 31 Harvard Seniors on leave of absence who are the only men in the school who hold no degrees. As the rule allowing persons qualified for the Senior class of Harvard College to enter the Law School as regular students without examination has been abolished, there will be in the future practically no one in the first year class holding no degree...
...seventeen men who played in the Pennsylvania and Yale games this year, Donald is the only one who will be prevented from playing by the four-year eligibility rule. Five of the remaining sixteen will graduate from the College or the Scientific School, and will not play unless they return to the Law or Graduate Schools. They are Boal and his substitute, A. R. Sargent, Captain Burden, and Parker and Warren, substitute halfbacks. This means the loss of all the valuable guards of this season's team, and leaves none who have played in a steady or dependable manner this...
...made, a thousand natives were hired at the arsenal, and work began with great energy. The natives, who are a turbulent set of half breeds, of some education, but totally unfitted to govern themselves, had, through association with the Spanish, become lazy and shiftless. A few months of American rule, however, cured them of this. When the insurgents rebelled the natives all quit and chin amen were hired in their places...
...entrance is too wide to protect vessels from the typhoons. To remedy this the Spanish government began the construction of a break water, but through mismanagement of funds little had been accomplished. The climate is by no means so bad as is imagined. fifteen or twenty years of American rule should make Manila the greatest city of the East...