Word: checking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universities meet on the foot-ball field in the fall, and in the spring on the diamond, and it is only natural that the two crews should carry out this system on the water. The exclusion of our freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement one or two races in which they will enter, provided they do not row in the proposed triangular race; but, of course, they would much prefer to row the Harvard freshmen than any other crew, for reasons stated...
...most interesting, pleasant and characteristic feature of our system of government the nearness of the people to their president and all their high officials. The close view given the citizens of the acts and conduct of those to whom they have entrusted their interests, serves as a regulator and check upon temptation in official life; and it teaches that diligence and faithfulness are the true measures of public duty. [Loud applause, cheers, and cries of "Good! good."] Such a relation between the people and their president ought to leave but little room in the popular judgment of conscience for unjust...
...check for merchandise...
...account of certain proceedings in a certain freshman course has just reached our ears; an account which would seem to check our aspiring hopes that we all who are now in college are men. Can we believe that even freshmen would have the childishness, even if we must think common courtesy lacking, to rise in the midst of the recitation and leave the recitation room? When we learn that the recitation room was none other than the instructor's own room, and the cause of the exodus a mere quibble, our respect for such very fresh freshmen reaches the zero...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...