Word: statements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this, differs from all other forms of government. Under the second head he read a short passage from Professor Sumner of Yale, to the effect that the lobby and its evils are fatal in their indifference to true democratic government. Mr. Torrey cited in support of this statement the great amounts of money which at every election are used in influencing voters and to defeat the very purposes of a democratic form of government...
...college press relative to the probable winners of the Intercollegiate games this year. Of course any such predictions bear. little weight no matter how they may be made. The history of track athletics in the past has shown scarcely an instance of correct predictions and yet a brief statement made by the Yale News may be of considerable interest to Harvard men. The notable fault of this resume is the assurance with which some of the most doubtful events are awarded...
ADOPTED, FEBRUARY 19.Amendments. For S 5, substitute.- No changes of elective studies are allowed after the beginning of the year except by leave of a committee of the Faculty, to whom application must be made in writing, with a full statement of the reasons for the proposed change...
...still further subdivided-stem into suckers, runners and rhizomes; roots into aerial growth as is the case with the banyan and rattan; and fruit into dehiscence, both active and passive, and elasticity. Dehiscence is not necessarily elastic, and an ordinary observer cannot fail to corroborate the truth of this statement by seeing the workings of nature in regard to plant growth. Inherent means for dissemination, however, must always prove limited, and it is necessary to depend largely for the distribution of seeds over the world and their growth, upon extraneous means. These are divided into two classes-inorganic and organic...
...Herald is authority for the statement that the Lafayette College nine will make a trip to this section in June playing, among other clubs, Harvard, Yale, Trinity and Brown...