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...seems very unfair to Juniors who wish to take next year in a graduate school that they should be suddenly informed that they must get out of the rooms which they engaged with the tacit understanding that they might live in them through their own Class Day and Commencement. I, myself, would never have taken a Yard room last spring if I had thought I would be forced out of it before I graduated. And so with others...
...older Church bodies repeat the ancient Creeds; the more modern are held together by certain forms of doctrine, expressed or tacit or embodied in a name...
...been a tacit understanding on all sides that the game of football has been on trial during the season just ended. The influences that threatened for awhile to abolish the game altogether on account of acknowledged evils which had been incident to it, gave way to the honest assurances of its friends that these evils were only incidental, that they were not inseparably connected with the game, and that a fair trial this year would show that football could still be played by college students and gentlemen...
...inexpedient and wrong. - (a) Obstruction policy in Parliament; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (b) Opposition to Land Act of 1881; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (c) Unscrupulous agents: Nineteenth Century, vol. 27, p.357; Times 8 Oct. 1891. - (d) Resistance to landlords and boycotting: Blackwoods, March, 1890; Times, 8 Oct, 1891. - (e) Tacit encouragement of crime; Times...
...accept what seems to be the tacit understanding, that the course requires six hours of work a week, what of the courses in Analytical Chemistry, I which are described as "chiefly laboratory work," and which take twice six hours? With only a single division into courses and half courses, it is impossible to give more credit for Chemistry 5 than for Chemistry 2; but it is only fair to designate in some way the requirements of the courses, so that a man will not find himself at this time of the year with hard courses growing harder and laboratory work...