Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with this rule, we would call the attention of the Faculty to the fact that a written agreement, signed by the graduate committee of the Boat Club, whose appointment was confirmed by the Faculty themselves, exists between Harvard and Yale, agreeing to row a race this year, unless one of the parties to the agreement shall be notified to the contrary before December...
...definition is strict, and there is a disposition both in England and America to wink less at the evasion of the rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When...
...case the college authorities are determined to appoint such instructors, we take it for granted that their salaries must come out of the college funds; for it would be manifestly unfair to call upon the students to subscribe money for instructors who might be personally unsatisfactory, and in whose choice they had had no voice. But if the students should refuse to subscribe, as they might do, unnecessary inroads would thus be made on the already oyer-taxed finances of the college...
...That there will be a standing committee, composed of one member from the faculty of each of the colleges adopting these regulations, whose duty it shall be to supervise all contests in which students of their respective colleges may engage, and approve all rules and regulations under which such contests may be held...
...approval. "Their stated facts," it cries, "are indisputable; their arguments calm, clear, and concise; their conclusions unavoidable. The conference which suggested the ideas, and the man who clothed them with words, have equal reason to be proud of their work. An overwhelming majority of all those persons whose character and standing make their approval of value, will certainly extend to these regulations the full measure of their unconditional endorsement." If it be not considered a piece of undergraduate impertinence by the young lion of the Spirit who penned the above, we would like to suggest that his dictum here stated...