Word: accomplish
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...sudden way to stop this condition, but there is a way for men to alleviate it. Discontent there will be, but we can lessen its proportion. And it is in the uniform spirit and determination of all college men, to do the best for their country that will accomplish this result...
...things considered, it has gone far to accomplish its purpose. The difficulties which met the new plan were great, for in the first year seventy-four courses were offered, although the corps of instructors was not increased to meet the extra demand. This naturally led to some confusion at first, but fortunately the elective system of courses had been introduced in a modified form in 1867, and this afforded an outlet to many who wished to take advantage of the new courses. It also enabled professors to offer advanced courses to graduate students at the same time freeing them from...
...cannot meet our obligations to Porto Rico in any other way. We must enact duties which shall secure prosperity to the islanders. Our own customs laws will not accomplish this. They were devised to protect a manufacturing country that presents an almost complete contrast to Porto Rico, a purely agricultural island. In the parts of our country where the economic conditions approach those of Porto Rico, in the southern plantation states, the opposition to our tariff has been increasing for seventy-five years...
...purpose (1) of putting definite and pertinent information with regard to Oxford at the service of the intending student, and (2) of becoming sufficiently well-informed to advance any project on foot for adapting Oxford conditions to the needs of the American members of the University. To accomplish the first object, which is of more immediate concern, the club intends to print a circular in which it will try to anticipate the questions likely to be asked about the Oxford University system in general, the opportunities and conditions of study in the University, and the advisability of connecting...
...order to insure this success it must have at least a fair share of the best men in College actively interested in it. To accomplish this it has been decided to give up the old system of selecting the class crews. The present plan is to have each club get out one (or more) class crews from each of the three upper classes and the Law School. Each pair in the same class (that is, the two Law School, the two Senior, the two Junior, and the two Sophomore crews) are to race together about April 7th to determine which...