Word: swift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...injunctions were just to the general public. (a) The best means for the government to protect the public must be (1) swift; the strike was doing irreparable damage to innocent people: Forum, Sept. 1894, pp. 5-13. (2) If possible, peaceable. (b) The injunctions were the only means both swift and peaceable. (c) The increasing magnitude of railroad strikes demanded a vigorous legal precedent which should check violence and protect the public: Forum, Sept...
...action, and steady will he has met these forces and maintained the position of Harvard in all circumstances. He is a man of action; always thoroughly acquainted with the matter in hand from its broadest aspects to its minutest details, always clear as to his own intention, always calm, swift and unhesitating in its realization. No university president in the country is his equal in executive ability, and it is safe to say that, when his administration closes, the executive of Harvard will have to be reorganized...
...WALES.PIERIAN.- The following men be at University Club, Friday, at 8 p. m., sharp: Schurz, Bacon, Perry, Wollaeger, Porter, Walker, Hall, Francis, Scaife, Wells, Johnson, Bolles, Frothingham, Adler, Swift, Rumford, Choate, Lemke, Busch, Capen, Lowell, Easton, Prescott, Gulick, Smith...
PIERIAN.- The following men be at University Club, Friday, at 8 p. m., sharp: Schurz, Bacon, Perry, Wollaeger, Porter, Walker, Hall, Francis, Scaife, Wells, Johnson, Bolles, Frothingham, Adler, Swift, Rumford, Choate, Lemke, Busch, Capen, Lowell, Easton, Prescott, Gulick, Smith...
PIERIAN.- The following men be at Roberts Hall for rehearsal Thursday at 4 in the afternoon instead of 7: Bennett, Schurz, Porter, Bacon, Hall, Walker, Denison, Scaife, Clark, Johnson. Frothingham, Gulick, Rumford, Swift, Capen, Parker, G. M. Busch, Stark. If any of these can not come see the leader at once...