Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...debate from the floor should be as much as possible like the informal discussions in committee of the whole of our legislatures. When a man wanders off from the subject or makes an inaccurate statement, any other member should feel free to interrupt him (with his permission, of course) and bring him to the point. A few wellput interruptions always add interest to a debate, and serve to make the speakers more at their ease...
...best brief argument is found in Dr. Green's statement, 48th Congress, 1st session Senate reports...
...corporation. Applications for appointment to the Robert Treat Paine Fellowship for the academic year of 1887-88 may be left at the office of the university, No. 5, University Hall, addressed to the academic council, on or before Thursday, 3 November, 1887. They should be accompanied by a statement of proposed plans of study. Applications sent by mail should be enclosed in covers addressed to the secretary of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass...
...growing with every year. The larger the number of applicants, the smaller the chance of getting a room. This truth is unavoidable but the additional unfairness of giving the subfreshmen equal chances with the senior can and ought to be avoided. It is also too evident to need statement that a man who has been in college two or three years has a weightier claim to getting into a college building than the man who just comes here. It would be a very simple matter to arrange a plan by which preference would be given to seniority in college standing...
...Advisory Committee, or delegates of the Intercollegiate Association, the secretary of the committee shall convene a meeting, both of the Advisory Committee and of the Intercollegiate Association, but the same shall be only on five days' written notice to the various members and delegates, which notice must contain a statement of the object of the said meetings. The meetings of the present year shall be governed by this section...