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President Jesse of the University of Missouri is known to favor the abolition of the game and is expected to press a resolution to that effect. As he is known to have some support among the other presidents, the result of the meeting is awaited with interest...
...been felt necessary to provide a place to take that of the saloons and dives which abound in this vicinity along Atlantic Avenue. It has always been hard heretofore to make any lasting effect on the sailors because the work of Sundays has not been supplemented by any other means; the work has been desultory. It is thought that, by means of the work during the week, this need may be fulfilled...
...effect of executive commissions on State government...
...extreme. An aristocrat himself, he had no sympathy with the common people. With the assistance of a group of wealthy planters he attempted to get rid of popular elections. Having in 1660 got an assembly to his liking, he did not dissolve it for sixteen years. The effect of this abuse was to drive many Cavaliers to oppose Berkeley, who in turn became more arrogant than ever...
...meeting was held in A umni Hall, and A. B. Kerr '97, chairman of the Yale News board, presided. When the question was put whether the meeting was in favor of a renewal of athletic contests with Harvard, a motion to that effect was carried, by a vote of 638 to 6. It was announced that the Harvard Athletic Committee had requested that this manner of settling the question be used in order that both college might be equally bound by any arrangements which might be made...