Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reorganizing its elements which had been scattered by Parnell's downfall ten years earlier. An Irishman, possessed of the peculiar Irish genius for oratory and parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses...
...University of Pittsburgh to membership in the association, and the decision of the Pittsburgh delegates to send a team to the intercollegiate games. Although the representative from California and Leland Stanford asked that, in consideration of war conditions and the distance of those universities from Philadelphia, the rule providing for the exclusion from membership of colleges which are not represented by a team for two years consecutively be suspended, it was voted that no change in the constitution be made at this time...
...have a liberal civilization, there is no room for the Hohenzollern in it. With him or his brood on the throne the rule of reason will cease in international affairs and the only right will be that of the powers of chemistry...
...Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...long trips for any Yale athletic teams. Probably a rule will be passed requiring teams to return to New Haven the same night of the events...