Search Details

Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...night watchman, Mr. Cheney, is to resign at the end of the present month the office he has so long and creditably filled, and the College will employ no nocturnal guardian in future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...pleasant little row all by herself. The Yale papers contain very copious accounts of the trouble. It appears that Captain Cook and Mr. Dunning, President of the Yale Navy, do not agree upon all points in boating matters, and, in consequence, either one or the other will have to resign. There is some dissatisfaction among the students at the proposed method of conducting certain affairs, and, as a result, "we see Mr. Cook's opinion disregarded and his candidate defeated"; thereupon, he "resigns his captaincy with feelings of regret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

...social position she has lost by early indiscretion. An opportunity to do so by deceit is suddenly thrust upon her; she grasps it, though not without a struggle with herself, and finds herself courted and admired, in the midst of luxury and affluence. Finally, when called upon to resign all this, although she triumphs over her meaner-spirited rival and has it in her power to retain all her advantages, her noble nature shines forth after a fierce struggle, and she decides to confess, abandon all, and return to her former degraded condition. Every kind and degree of passion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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caused the Gladstone Ministry to resign, was to the following tenor: The old universities were to have their charters withdrawn, and from their endowments a new National University of Ireland was to be established, in which the only requirement for degrees should be the passing of the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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next