Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Navy, as well as seven years as the naval attache of the United States in London. He was one of the noted captains under Admiral Sampson, and was in command of the ship which was sent to put a pressure on the bandit-chief Rais Ullah to compel him to give up lon Perdicaris '58 who had been captured. Since his retirement in 1906 Admiral Chadwick has turned to literature and has produced many noted works. The speaker will be introduced by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart...
...case was kindly undertaken for the Wilson Club by Mr. R. S. Hoar '09, attorney at law with the firm of Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, of Boston, and a petition for mandamus was brought to compel the assessors and registrars to assess and register the petitioner. Justice Braley has given the assessors and registrars until April 1 to assess and register Warfield and pay all expenses of the petitioners. If this is not done by that date, he will issue the writ. It is thought unlikely that the city authorities will in this case appeal to the full bench...
...educational purposes. He deplores the habit which too many well-intentioned donors have of locking up their bequests in certain specified projects. "What the university most needs", he says, "is gifts which will aid it in its doing better work which it has already undertaken, and not gifts which compel it to assume new obligations that in turn make an additional drain on its already over-taxed resources...
...CRIMSON wishes to call the attention of students to a case now pending before the Circuit Court of Essex Country. An application has been made for a writ of mandamus to compel the election board of Cambridge to permit students who are not self-supporting to register and vote at elections. Those who are self-supporting already have this privilege, provided they comply with the other requirements of the law. Heretofore, every other student has been excluded from suffrage on the ground of non-residence, being adjudged a resident of the district where his parents live. Owing to its importance...
...Saturday's football game were most vividly impressed with the condition of about two hundred yards of Boylston street near the old electric carbarn. At this point the continuous procession of teams and automobiles raised a dust which for density would put a Newfoundland fog to shame. To compel five thousand spectators to penetrate this cloud is not only a disgrace, but a menace to the public health. Without attempting to place the blame, we trust that in the future arrangements can be made to sprinkle Boylston Street several time before the inevitable traffic begins. A repetition of Saturday...