Word: whoever
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...machines with which the various class crews have to work at the gymnasium are entirely worn out, and it has become the imperative duty of the authorities, whoever they may be, to provide a new set. It is utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races...
...cases, and that a society which has proven itself so useful to amateur photographers, should have been allowed to die out. If such a society is to be formed, let it by all means be formed immediately, so that everything may be ready for use after the spring vacation. Whoever the writer of the communication may be, let him not be restrained by false modesty, but let him come forward and take the first steps towards forming a society which will prove welcome to all amateur photographers...
...this race and has done everything in its power to make it a success. Thus everything now depends upon the condition of the roads, which were declared to be in good order yesterday. Technology has a flourishing club and will make strenuous efforts to make Harvard take second place. Whoever wins, the energy displayed by the Harvard Bicycle Club in perfecting the arrangements for this race show that the management of the club is in able and efficient hands...
...conditions for the admission examinations were as follows:- "Whoever shall be able to read Cicero or any other such like classical author at sight and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose, and decline perfectly the paradigms of names and verbs in the Greek tongue. Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." It was certainly a higher standard in the classics than we have at the present day, for there are very few who can speak and write Latin with ease and correctness. Weekly declamation were held on Fridays during the college...
...high premium. In answer to the charge that English merchants have spent money to get a foothold in our market, Mr. White said that in twenty-five years of close connection with tariff legislation he never knew of a shilling that was thus expended. Mr. Sherman also says that whoever favors lower duties opposes protection and favors foreigners, yet the strongly-protectionist First Congress thought average duties of eight per cent. sufficient in place of 47 per cent., and they certainly could not be accused of favoring foreigners. He himself said in a former speech that the duties were...