Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...frequent elections, was greatly exaggerated and that business is more stable in America during these periods than in England during its elections. By the lengthening of the Presidents term he would become more dependent on Congress and less responsible to the people. Therefore he would be more likely to suffer impeachment at the hands of congress. Richardson closed by showing that in rendering the President more independent of the people, the policy of his party would be less likely to be carried...
...James looks upon the record of last year as a very gratifying one, the percentage of increase being higher than in any previous year, while the year was marked by business depression which caused many educational movements to suffer...
...candidates for all the class ball teams will be called out to begin practice this week, we wish to urge that as many men as possible present themselves. The class teams always suffer from lack of material, and the captains often have not men enough to form two nines. The contest for the class championship is of very great importance, both in keeping up the general interest in the game and in furnishing varsity material, and all men who have had any experience should be willing to do what they can to ensure its success...
This is doubtless somewhat unjust to the elementary education as it is at present. The evils above mentioned have not been newly recognized, and already much has been done by earnest men to remedy them. But such reform takes time. Many classes must still suffer from the faults of their early training. There is promise for the future, though, in the steady decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone...
...team, too, the athlete is responsible to the college whose representative he is, and these claims of team and college should be binding even when the claims of common sense and morality above referred to, might be heedlessly set aside. In past years Harvard teams have been known to suffer by the loss of men through probation. Before cause has been given this year we protest against the unfairness of such men, so that protest may not seem complaint against a particular individual...