Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been for her to submit them to the oral examination and then to have urged the technicality, if she so chose. Her eagerness to avoid the oral examination, and the direct refusal of one of her players to submit to the same seems to us very much like a tacit confession of her own guilt. Had her protested players been above reproach they certainly would have had everything to gain and nothing to lose by their appearance at the meeting in New York...
...notice. It is that men taking their afternoon exercise run on Brattle and Craigie streets as well as on North Avenue. North Avenue for several years has been the customary place for men running alone or in teams to take their exercise. Cambridge people have given their tacit consent to this arrangement, and those who do not want to meet the men running can generally avoid North Avenue in the late afternoon. When, however, other Cambridge streets are used indiscriminately this mutual understanding is violated by us. Cambridge people have, of course, a right to ask that the men should...
...distance) of English Society manners, are the ones sure to be most hopelessly left on application for entree to social life in England. In England the flattery of imitation is left to serving people; when it spreads to other classes, it becomes the subserviency of fools. Such is the tacit English verdict at all events...
...light, and are refusing to vote for him. If we march with the Republicans, then, this statement is disproved ; if we march with the Independents and Democrats, this statement is proven true. Moreover, as shown by Mr. Warner in your issue of yesterday, it has not been custom, but tacit obedience to the wishes of the majority, that has led the students to march heretofore in the Republican procession. Then let the majority rule now, on whichever side it may prove to be ! Let us go as a unit, let us all go, and so hand down to our college...
...think that the new regulation is at all in conflict with the rights that the faculty has always reserved for itself, but still it is a tacit recognition of the fact that the high ideal set by Harvard has proved to be unattainable in America, at least under existing circumstances...