Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Jones in rebuttal stated that England's claims of five years' residence in the Transvaal for naturalization, are inconsistent with the rule of six years in England. There should not be a condition in the Transvaal thus different from that in England...
...relations of Great Britain and the Transvaal, and second, upon the general principles of international law. Dealing with the relations of the parties he pointed out that in 1877 England's sovereignty over the Transvaal was complete beyond question. Not until the conventions of 1881 and 1884 was home rule given to the Transvaal. He went on to show that these conventions were given upon certain specific conditions and that the Transvaal had repeatedly broken these conditions. From these facts there can be but one conclusion, that by its own act, by the failure to keep the conditions...
...voters in the class, 379 took part in the election. The rule regarding the election of marshals was as follows: "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." The votes for the various nominees follow: Secretary. Spalding, 221 Phillips...
...Senior class will hold its second day's election today, from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., in Brooks House, ground floor, east. Three men, including the Chairman, are to be elected for each of the four committees. Attention is called to the following rule...
...play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...