Word: whose
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Whose tongue outweighed his learning...
...custom of playing a series of games seems almost entirely to have superseded the single game of former years, and it is, I think, the only true way of testing the respective merits of the two Nines. Leaving out of the question the advantage gained by the club on whose grounds the single game is played, there are many benefits which accrue to each college from a series. By this plan, the friends of each college are sure to see one of the games played on their own grounds, and so, of course, more interest is excited; besides, a more...
...players in Harvard may not be out of place here. The Nine is supposed, and surely ought, to be composed of the nine best players in the University. Is the Nine, as it stands at present, thus made up; or are there some men keeping themselves in the background, whose services might be of great benefit? If there be any of this latter class, we shall surely hope to see them, as soon as Jarvis Field is free from snow, working for the place which their merits should secure them...
THIS bill, whose defeat caused the Gladstone Ministry to resign, was to the following tenor: The old universities were to have their charters withdrawn, and from their endowments a new National University of Ireland was to be established, in which the only requirement for degrees should be the passing of the examinations...
...same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five years he has been; nor are the students of Dublin sufficiently free from bigotry, or sufficiently under the influence of independent thought, to refrain from insulting the statesman by burning him in effigy...