Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important that the coxswains study the chart of the river and observe the rules. All bumps must be made on the outside. Each crew must keep to the inside course in rounding a curve, to give the crew behind a chance to bump. A crew disregarding this rule will be considered bumped...
...clock on "The Passing of the Old Ireland." The lecture will be open only to members of the Union. Mr. O'Connor is one of the Irish members of the House of Commons and is therefore a powerful factor in the coming parliamentary election. In his fight for home rule for Ireland great expense must be incurred, and it is to get funds to carry on this election that he has come to America...
There are three great matters at issue before parliament at the next meeting: the budget, the House of Lords, and home rule for Ireland. When the first two questions are at issue, Ireland's 81 to 83 votes in parliament will have great weight...
...last speaker of the evening. He pointed to one of the chief defects in the graduate of American schools of applied science as that of timidity in attacking large problems. Students too often begin with low ideals and try to attain greater ones, whereas the reverse should be the rule to follow. In their studies, students are inclined to wait for their instructors to tell them how and why to do their work. "The true scholar," said President Lowell, "does not wait for a Professor to come along with a lantern and show him the way. He simply breaks right...
Many solutions have been advanced, but none has been shown entirely practicable or satisfactory. It might be that a plan adapted from the English model is the key to the situation. A rule that persons qualifying under the present regulations should complete the requirements in three years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College...