Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...voted that every person holding a degree from the University should be allowed to wear the special gown of his degree "at his own discretion." The point to be noticed in this action is that while holders of degrees may wear their gowns on any occasion, there is no rule requiring them to do so at any time...
...letters. If it is not desired, these names will of course not be published. If a man is unwilling to send us his real name when addressing a letter to us, we can not help feeling that his comments or opinions are not given in good faith. The above rule is strictly adhered to, and it may explain to several students why their communications have failed to appear in the CRIMSON...
...Harvard and Pennsylvania, that no man who has played four years on college teams shall be eligible. The decision bars out Captain Williams and Fullback Brooke, of the Pennsylvania team, both of whom have played more than four years, but were still eligible under the Pennsylvania rule, which allows a man to play four years on a Pennsylvania team, no matter how long he may have played elsewhere...
...lose the Soudan.- (x) In 1884, England forbade the Khedive to recover Soudan, and caused the death of General Gordon: Quar. Rev., p. 264, (1895).- (b) Public debt has been increased from 475,000,000 to 508,965,299 dollars.- (c) There has been great financial corruption under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under...
...Objections to a third term are not valid.- (1) Absolutely no fear now of monarchical rule or dictatorship.- (a) We have a very small and scattered army.- (2) Washington did not refuse a third term chiefly on political grounds.- (a) Though he did have some fear that monarchical rule might be possible, yet his reasons for refusing were mainly personal: McMaster, II, ch. IX.- (x) Was in bad health at the end of second term, and died before third term would have ended: No. Am. Rev., CXXX, 117.- (y) He was no longer "the idol of the people": Ibid...