Word: gist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pole, shot or hammer; that arrangements for games shall be under control of a special committee of four; and, finally, that a special meeting of the U. T. A. C. committee shall be called by the chariman, at the request of any member. This is, of course, merely the gist of the constitution...
Five votes were recommended by the committee of the overseers, the gist of which is contained in the first of them which is as follows: "That the board of overseers does not concur with the corporation in its approval of the first and second proposals of the college faculty." The vote was adopted...
...gradually tending to become what it is most desirable for the University to possess, a general reform club. To change the Free Wool Club into such an institution, or rather formally to rename it and remodel its constitution to suit the actual modifications in its character is the gist of the proposition which the executive committee will make before the meeting tonight...