Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ashley D.Leavitt, Yale's second speaker, said: "In legislating for Porto Rico, Congress is not limited by constitutional provision for uniformity of duties, etc. This we maintain on the ground that Porto Rico is not a part of the United States as regards the constitution, and that Congress has the power to legislate for it in this condition. That conquest did not make Porto Rico a part of the United States is clear from the decision of the court in Fleming vs. Page (9 Howard). The court said in regard to Tampica, a conquest by the United States...
...medical students are members, against 350 last year. The more convenient location has also resulted in a much increased outside trade, especially with graduates of the school who are setting out on their professional career. This outside trade and the rearrangement of medical courses have also caused a more uniform amount of trade...
...meeting in Chicago of the leading universities of the country called by the University of California, it was decided to unite in a permanent organization in order to establish and maintain uniform standards for the various graduate degrees. President Eliot acted as chairman of the convention...
...place for general education and a workshop for professional training, but at least the high school ought to be faithful to its only goal of general education without professional anticipations. The division of labor lies on the outside; we are specialists in our handiwork, but our heart-work is uniform, and the demand for individualized education emphasizes the small differences in our tasks, and ignores the great similarities. And finally, who is able to say what a boy of twelve years will need for his individual life's work...
...spirit existed. The students did not, moreover, have the friendly relations with their instructors which exist today, owing to the extreme system of discipline which then existed. The most minute rules governed the every day life of a student. To denote his class he was obliged to wear a uniform which was of a certain color and style with different numbers of frogs on the cuffs. In addition, he could not go through the Yard with his hat on. The results were rebellions, when brickbats were thrown, windows broken, and proctors' lives endangered. A Yard police force was thereupon established...