Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...concerning them is not sufficiently condemnatory. Why this vital defect in the college morals should exist is hard to decide; but we believe the men who represent another's work as their own, fall into the evil through carelessness and thoughtlessness of its dishonorable character, if a man can commit an act of deliberate dishonesty through thoughtlessness...
...Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president may any day commit the country without warning to an utterly new career and history, no citizen, no matter how he feels, must then speak, not even to the representative constitutionally appointed to check the President in time of need...
Meanwhile the pirates have been having a little fun with Algernon and his suicidal pools. He rushes off to commit suicide in real earnest, and Kidd's path is clear...
...treasurer. Next autumn the secretary will send out a circular letter to the leading colleges for information in regard to the status of fencing in these colleges and the chances of being able to turn out a good team. This will be an informal letter and will not commit the association to any action. It is hoped that West Point and Annapolis will send teams to compete next year...
...Walter Fewkes, subject to the Director of the Museum, this work to be done at the expense of the trustee of Mrs. Hemenway's estate; the ownership and absolute control of the collection to remain with the said trustees, they not being prepared at this time to commit themselves to a final disposition of the same...