Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Chaplin has been obliged to suspend his courses until after the mid-years on account of trouble with his eyes...
...large congregation at the regular Sunday evening service in the chapel last evening. The preacher was Rev. William Lawrence. His text was Mark vi: 56. After narrating the story of Christ's second visit to Nazareth and of His seeming powerlessness to do many wonderful deeds then on account of the unbelief of the people, the speaker turned to examine the reasons for the slow progress the world has made since Christ's time in realizing the ideal of true Christianity. The chief trouble today is that there is an almost universal skepticism as to the possibility of perfect spirituality...
...Even if voidable, there are great obstacles and objections to the purchase and completion of the Panama canal on account of: (a) The expense; (b) the difficulties of construction; (c) the difficulties incident to its situation.- Nation, vol. 47, 487, Forum, vol. 4, 279, Forum, vol. 3, 412; Popular Science Monthly...
...Hale, '91, who opened the debate for the affirmative, gave an account of the divorce laws as they exist at present in our country, and showed the evils which are constantly caused by them. Each state, said the speaker, has its own divorce law, which is as different from that of the other states as the North Pole is from the South. A man or woman who cannot obtain a divorce in one state has only to remove to some other state where the laws will suit the case in hand. Many attempts have been made to prevent this...
...comparative strength of the blows delivered by the 125-pound man and those of a man weighing but 118 pounds can hardly be over-estimated. As this is recognized as a truism by all sparrers, many men in past years have been deterred from entering our meetings on account of the very inequality. If I am not mistaken, there was an attempt made last winter to institute a class composed of those whose weight did not exceed 117 or 118 pounds, to be known as the bantam-weights. The attempt falling through, the originators refused to enter a ring where...