Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.The Executive Committee shall have the full management and control of the property and affairs of the Association. They shall enforce the preservation of order and obedience to the Constitution, Laws, and Rules of the Association; shall make or authorize all necessary contracts and purchases; shall have power to employ such servants and assistants, and make such regulations for the economy and success of the Association, as they shall deem proper. They shall elect a Field Marshal to take charge of all the sports, and shall appoint all the Judges, Timekeepers, etc., that they think necessary...
...those having the goal to win the game. Further, that we should make alternate visits, one year to Princeton, and the following year they should visit Cambridge, and so on. At this point the delegates from Yale arrived. In answer to the question as to whether they had full power to act or not, they replied in the negative. This at once made the meeting an utter waste of time, as far as making arrangements with Yale was concerned, for her delegates could do nothing about playing with fifteen men until, they said, "a meeting of the College was called...
...only remains for us who linger a little longer to remember affectionately those who are gone before, to thank God for sparing our own lives, and to resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...
...would not for a moment question either the undoubted merits of the successful competitors, or the wishes of the gentlemen who acted as judges to do their best in a very difficult and, to some of them apparently, a novel position. But it does seem to us that power to sway an audience is one of the chief requisites of good speaking, and it is surely strange that neither of the three speakers whom the audience would have placed as high, if not higher, than any others, was mentioned in the award. Either there are certain arbitrary requirements, unknown...
...when now, at length, it seemed best to those in power, there was a race of twenty-four stadia on a machine, wonderful to look upon, called by those inhabiting this region a bicycle, which is of such a kind as follows : there are two wheels, of which the foremost, on the one hand, is large, having many and long spokes, but the one behind, on the other hand, is very small. On these machines, then, they contended in the stadium; and two youths especially rode near to one another, at one time one being first, at another time another...