Word: sanctioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select the most curious spelling and adopt it as their way of spelling the name, for have they not the sanction of Mr. Davenport Adams? I am quite certain they would find as much authority for so doing as for the way they have...
...Thomas Dwight, Parkman professor of anatomy has been made a member of the Philosophea-Medicae Society of Rome, the diploma being issued by President J. M. Cornoldi, S. J. This society was founded by Dr. Travaglini, with the sanction of the late Pope Pius IV., and is intended for the advancement of the sciences and philosophy. It ranks among its members, some of the leading scientific men and philosophers of Europe...
...nature and the nature of our relations to all things, then any change in our idea of these relations will change our idea of right and wrong. In this way fatalism may have an influence on conduct such as is exercised by all religious and philosophical beliefs. It may sanction certain acts and practices and condemn others; it may encourage certain states of mind. Thus we can conceive that if all the world turned fatalist, we might see our good people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less...
...Board of Overseers have refused to sanction the vote of the Faculty that the Quinquennial catalogue be written in English instead of Latin. Consequently, as hitherto, Anglo Saxon names will continue to be distorted into barbarous Latin...
...will deny that the letter signed by the Harvard delegates will carry more weight both to the outside world, and more especially to Yale itself, than a letter signed by any three spectators of the game. On this account we are glad that the Association refused to sanction the opinions expressed in this letter, and hope it will be distinctly understood, that the letter is simply the opinion of three private individuals. The document, however, has no bearing whatever on the question of the championship. The special meeting of the Convention held directly after Thanksgiving day, decided that there should...