Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think of as the cause of his country's greatness. We are the exponent of an original and unique form of government whose feelings are almost lost in its advantages. Our progress is due largely to the fact that, being freed at first from an inferior form of rule, together with the obnoxious customs it carried with it, we have been kept free thus far from that form of rule and those customs...
...efforts. We have at last the ideal realized in Mr. Beckhard's palatial store under the extension of Parker's on Tremont Street. The most refined taste has been expended in the presentation of his business. Mosaics and cut-glass stained windows and smiling Hebes here form the rule. Especial attention has been paid to render the store attractive to young men, and every student who visits it cannot fail to feel that college men have still an attractive renumerative avenue open to them in business...
Since time immemorial, the faculty has decidedly quenched all signs of such a thing as playing in the yard. We have even seen a foot-ball man prevented by a member of the faculty from tossing a foot-ball in the air while crossing the yard. This rule, however, does not seem to apply to the Cambridge non-collegiate youths who assemble daily on the avenue in front of the library and play "polo" to the great inconvenience of all who have to cross the yard. Consistency has never been a strong point of the faculty, but here at last...
With this working machinery, bills are introduced and put through all the readings and forms of a deliberative assembly, and adopted or rejected according to the disposition of the house. The opposition benches are, as a rule, almost as full as the ministerial seats, causing the rivalry to be very active and the interest unflagging. Meetings are held every Monday evening at 8 o'clock, and the house seldom adjourns before 11 p.m. The attendance is very large, often reaching twenty-five or thirty, while an excellent rule, that three successive absences shall be equivalent to a resignation, insures constant...
...still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required are in the library to be reserved, and as the library is open only during the day, and can be consulted as a rule only between recitations, it is very difficult for students to find the time they need for this reading and the books to which they are referred. This difficulty becomes an impossibility when students have other courses requiring special reading...