Word: checking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...check each other, (Bryce, 461).- (1) A hasty and unconsidered action, should be prevented, (Ibid, 108).- (2) Too great domination over congress by the people should be prevented.- (a) The capriciousness of the public will is one of the greates dangers to the Republic.- (B) The disadvantages of electing both bodies on the same basis are seen in state legislatures.- (1) There is no conservative check in state legislation.- (a) Too much trivial legislation, (Bryce, I, 520).- (2) Both houses of the state legislatures are excessively afraid of the people, (Bryce...
...looking at the universe, and a peculiar theory of the functions of a poet. His sympathy led him to participate in and celebrate the sin of men. He looked at nature believing that it should be accepted in its entirety. And Whitman's motto in poetry was "Nature without check...
...namely, the general corruption of the circulating coin. But still gold was distinctly overvalued in the circulation, while Holland and France were less favorable to gold, more favorable to silver. Consequently these two countries drew away England's new silver coin, replacing it with gold. Finally England tried to check this flow of silver by reducing the value of the guinea to meet the demands of foreign markets. But it was too late; twenty years of the outgo of silver had taken away her power to exercise this check. The discovery of the mines of Brazil still further reduced...
...Increased numbers of the University would render it impossible for a University club to perform intended functions.- (1) In ten or twenty years proposed club could extend its advantages to comparatively few men.- (x) It is very probable that University will continue to increase at present rate.- (I) Only check on increase is growth of Western universities.- (II) Such growth is likely to be very slow.- (y) Such a club, ipse facto, must be of somewhat limited facilities.- (2) It would not then prevent social disintegration.- (x) It would not then "furnish a meeting place for mass of students...
...soon as a student has finished his examination, he must hand his book to one of the proctors at the desk, who will check his name on the list of the course in which he has been examined...