Word: rules
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After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...
...candidates for the Weld Freshman crew have been cut down from 75 in number to about 50. Next week the men will be graded into eights preparatory to going on the river. The men are as a rule larger than last year's candidates, but they seem to lack life in their work. Their chief faults are a weak leg drive and slow body recovery. The following men have been retained and will report at the Gymnasium at 5 o'clock on Monday: E. B. Roberts, Bent, Wright, Maltby, Pumpelly, George, Adams, Hartwell, Greenough, Du Bois, Whitwell, Graydon, Derby...
...aids, and should not offer complete support; (2) they should not be used to detain in the shelter of the University young men who are over twenty-five years of age, and who should be ready for productive and responsible work out in the active world." To the latter rule one or two exceptions may be made...
...wholly from cuttings or "sets," as they are called, and this practice has been carried on from time immemorial, until now the plants have ceased to produce fertile seeds. It happens occasionally in South and Central America, that a little seed is produced by artificial crossing, but, as a rule, the plants raised from these seeds are not much, if any, better than those from the cuttings. In Java, successful attempts have been made to carry the pollen from the flowers to such stigmas as are receptive, and the results have been excellent. These experiments have been repeated in other...
...work during the night hours" without any intention "of retaining it at the expense of other students," suggests a question as to whether the removal of a book for over-night use could possibly do any harm to other students or to the Library. Of course, as the rule now stands, it would be impossible to justify anyone in removing a reserved book under any circumstances, since it involves the deliberate breaking of a Library rule, but it might be possible so to change the rule as to provide for the drawing out of books for overnight use. This system...