Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be with a purely undergraduate team on both sides. This undergraduate rule will disqualify Bowers, '92, now in the Law School, O'Neill and Norton in the Law School, and Kedzie, '93 S., who once attended the North Western University. The loss of these men will materially weaken the team, but the advantage to be gained in future by the more nearly absolute purity of athletics must seem to the unbiased mind to clearly overbalance...
...some have enforced the rules rigidly while others have not; but with them all there has appeared a disposition, often frankly admitted, to treat English C indifferently. It has been suggested at times to reduce the number of required +++ to four, - an ill-advised suggestion, for it would only weaken the course more and be a step toward discontinuing it. While the discussion of English in colleges and schools is so general as it is at present, it is for us to improve every course we have in college, and here is one, apt to be neglected and slighted, which...
...does some of the best and foremost instructors and thinkers in the country. We are inclined to agree with others in beliving that, as other colleges grow up in various parts of the country and increase in influence with the public, we must, perhaps, lose or at least weaken to a certain extent our hold upon the West. But that day, we trust, is far distant and at present we are still growing in every direction. The Graduate School especially, with the advantages it offers in the large number of fellowships and scholarships and the liberal extent of its curriculum...
...Brewer's pluck was a match for Yale's brutality, and he held the ball tight, and it was so throughout the game. Not once did the Harvard backs give way or weaken before the vicious onslaught of the Yale ends and tackles, and happily not once were they severely injured...
...good government. - (a) The best legislatures consist of two houses chosen in different manners: Bryce, Ch. xii, xxv; Lowell's Essays on Govt., 97, - (1) The most intelligent nations are so governed. - (2) A nation is more thorougly represented both in radical and conservative tendencies. - (b) The change would weaken the union of state and national government: Bryce I.pp 110, 318; Boutney Studies in Const Law,p 120. - (1) would lead to proportionate representation. - (2) The legislation is the most fit representative of the state. - (c) The change would offer more encouragement to fraud: Bryce i. 613; Pub. Opinion...