Word: checking
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...party system would not be a success in France is the great centralization of the Franch government. The Minister of Justice alone has the power to make 8000 appointments and if there were one dominant party, that party would be a virtual despot. The committee system acts as a check on the enormous powers of the French Minister. What the French Minister lacks in irresponsibility he makes up in power, and what the English Minister lacks in power he makes up in irresponsibility. It is the maintenance of such features of administration as the coalition and committee systems which means...
Rules relating to both on-side kick and forward pass. There are also rules to govern the actions of players when a forward pass or on-side kick is made. Formerly, the most effective way to prevent the recovery of the ball on such a play was to check or block off the players on the offense while they were endeavoring to recover the ball. As a consequence men unprepared for a shock or off their balance while reaching for the ball were heavily thrown. Now, however, on a kick or forward pass, from the time a player...
...clock. The number of reserved seat tickets sold to one person is limited to four, but each graduate may purchase an extra seat in the cheering section for personal use. If a graduate is unable to attend the sale, the tickets may be obtained by mail. An enclosed check and stamped envelope with the address must be sent with the order. There will be no application blanks. The price of the tickets is $1.50 each...
...likely that this change will be a permanent one. The eight rowed up to the Watertown Arsenal and back in short stretches, the work of the crew being the best which has been shown during the experimental changes of this week. Although the boat had a tendency to check at the catch on account of the men jabbing their oars into the water with their leg drive applied too suddenly, the body swing was much better and the men were well together. The two fours which will be taken to New London will be definitely picked today...
...group "For Undergraduates and Graduates," finds a number of its members of the latter class. The under-graduate's work, because of his outside interests and narrower knowledge of the subject, naturally does not attain the standard set by the graduate, and the instructor is unwilling to check the progress of the more advanced students for the sake of the slower men. The result is that the undergraduate finds the work beyond him and can not in this case maintain as comparatively high a standard as in his other courses...