Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Governmental control would tend towards a policy of aggrandizement and extension of territory.- Nation...
...English literature uniform in all the fourteen colleges. The commission now contemplates raising the requirements in modern languages, and should the plan succeed, all the colleges interested would probably adopt the same standard. Similarity in entrance examinations is not only impossible but undesirable, yet a certain uniformity will undoubtedly tend to strengthen the bonds between the various colleges and facilitate greatly the preparatory work of many young...
...influence of women in political affairs would tend to raise the political standard in no small degree, as already seen in regard to the school committee where the presence of women at the meetings does much to refine the manners of the men present...
...plan is carried out it will add another to the list of championship contests between Yale and Harvard. Of course it will be impossible to arouse as general an interest in bicycling as exists in foot-ball, base-ball, or rowing, but a race like the one proposed will tend to lift bicycling from the comparatively insignificant place it now holds as a college sport. Yale has many good riders, and the race would probably be very closely contested...
...from it would be considerable. In many of our departments work is now done very creditable to the college and the individuals alike; and the aggregate amount of this special work is quite sufficient to fill a fair-sized quarterly. The privilege, too, of having their work published would tend to increase the care already taken by the members of advanced courses in preparing their papers. The thought of these men, though it may be at times a little immature, were it published would prove of value as well as of interest both to the college at large...