Word: said
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resolution was passed by a vote of 18 to 7: "Resolved, That the committee appointed Jan. 12, 1898, to present to the legislature a bill for the extension of the right to vote for Overseers be instructed to proceed in conformity with the terms of the vote by which said committee was appointed...
...class crews have now been in training about two weeks and this period may be said to conclude the indoor work, as, if the weather continues favorable, all four crews will go to the river next week. The Sophomore crew has already been on the water two or three times. The men have gone out in pairs and singles and have had little coaching together. Their aim has been to pick up a little watermanship and ease in the boats before the crew rowing begins...
...Self-Cultivation in English," by George Herbert Palmer, LL. D. Thomas Y. Crowell and Company.] It would be hard to suggest anyone better fitted to cope with the subject of English composition than the translator of "The Odyssey of Homer." Professor Palmer's English has been said to have a kind of surge which carries the reader buoyantly along...
...Barrows, D. D., who delivered the Dudleian Lecture in Appleton Chapel last evening, took for his subject "Natural Religion as revealed in Hindooism." Whereas Christianity is steadily progressing, said he, Hindooism has shown a retrogression from its former ideals. The great reason for this degeneracy is to be found in the positive refusal of the Hindoo to recognize in his religion that broad human sympathy which is the basis of Chris tianity. His is a cold, impersonal pantheism, revelling in contradictions, tolerating all forms of religion and even no religion at all; but refusing to tolerate anything which conflicts with...
...John C. Bell, the Pennsylvania delegate to the meeting of the Football Rules Committee, to be held next Saturday, in New York, said that he, as the University's representative, would advocate no changes in the rules. Any minor changes, he said, would be readily acceded to should they be offered by delegates of other colleges...