Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeat another, but because they are the best means of developing the different sports. They are promarily athletic exhibitions, and to cheer at any misplay is to ridicule an honest effort. For that matter, even if other teams were invited here that they might be defeated, it would still be poor taste to cheer at errors; Harvard ought to win through her own strength, not through the weakness of her opponents...
...president would probably appoint able parliamentarians who can lead Congress and who will still be subject to him. This will give the president great and dangerous power...
...change would be ineffective (a) Committees will still control legislation. (b) Information about affairs of departments will not be more available. (c) Cabinet ministers will be no more responsible than at present. (d) Congress has no time to devote to listening to explanations and answers. (e) No improvement in the quality of the Cabinet will result...
...nothing policy. If students should adopt a permanent arrangement at Memorial, the Corporation owe it to them, in that case, to make clear that such arrangement is urged in order to make feasible a second hall and not simply for its own sake, leaving the second hall still only a remote possibility. The Corporation ought explicitly to state to the directors of Memorial that, if a satisfactory permanent method can be found, and if requisite funds can be made available, a second hall will be built at once. If either side declines to do its share, we believe that...
...Harvard Bridge, less than a mile from the finish, '96 had again spurted and was leading '94 by two lengths. '95 had dropped back still further, and '97, though rowing out of time and in miserable form, seemed again to come into the race...