Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...presented and had scored successes, but the management was not content to stop there, but dared venture higher, feeling confident they had artists who would do them credit, and they did not reckon without their host. It was easy to see that everybody was most anxious as to the verdict, but early in the evening their minds were set at rest by the enthusiasm with which the audience received the performance. Not only for its enterprise does the management deserve credit, but the thanks are due of that portion of the music-loving public which has never been able...
...speech, declining to talk upon the income tax, the subject under discussion, as it "touched him up" too deeply. Dr. Abbott, for the judges, then declared that the decision was not unanimous, but that it gave the victory to Princeton. There was some applause at the announcement, as the verdict, while fully deserved by the Princeton representatives, was a keen disappointment at Yale...
...audiences at the Columbia, where the rollicking comedy "The New Boy" is being presented will have every night three hours of shaking laughter over this jolly play. Ever since the opening night the theatre has been crowded and the constant re-echo of vociferous mirth and the general verdict of Boston coincides with that of New York that there is more amusing material in "The New Boy" than in any comedy presented here for years. The action is lively and the comical situations follow each other as fast as professional foot racers. There is ginger and go and snap...
...What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs to be so watched is not fit for genuine sportsmen"? Nor will it be any easier for men whose livelihood or fame or animal gratifications do not depend upon the game, to disagree with his verdict that it is "unfit for college use." In this be speaks as the educator, mindful of his duty to the young men under his care and to their parents; farther on he speaks as an American citizen who would not see the intellectual and moral standards of his countrymen turned...
Freshman Debating Club.The regular meeting of the Freshman Debating Club will be held in Sever 11, tonight. The question, "Resolved, That less than the whole number of a jury be competent to render a verdict in all cases," will be argued on the affirmative by J. G. Gulick, H. Wood, Jr., and R. Stout; on the negative by R. Pierson, R. S. Dunn and G. W. Leavitt...