Word: actions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Gallatin are really heathens because they are distinguished from the "Christians." We do not see clearly the distinction, but we cannot believe that heathens form a large proportion of the inhabitants of a place where "the public taste is so elevated as to frown down any immoral or insubordinate action...
SOMETHING has been written, and more has been said and thought, on the subject of proper fire-escapes for the various buildings in the Yard, but still the Corporation have taken no action in the matter, - at least to all outward seeming. It is incredible that those in office should be so careless of the safety of those under their charge, and so entirely regardless of their feelings and wishes in a matter of such vital importance. The necessity of these means of escape cannot be too strongly urged, and in view of the recent terrible disasters in Brooklyn...
...Faculty of Harvard College, it is reported, have at last consented to receive applications from women for admission to the full privileges of the University. This question has agitated the professors since 1874, but not until recently has there been any action taken upon it." - Boston Advertiser...
...force of the argument that to chop so much ice would be a task of great difficulty. Our tiles, secured after so much exertion, might have been left in the beds where Nature put them, if they have been brought here merely to be imbedded again by the action of the elements. Municipal laws allow a person twenty-four hours in which to have the sidewalks belonging to him cleared. It would be well for us, apparently, if some higher power looked after those whose business it is to see that we have terra firma to walk...
...minutes = 10 1/2 hours, which is rather a long time for men to sit listening to "parts," - and men, too, who have generally been thought to be somewhat interested in the dinner which occurs on that day. For their own interest the "tyrants and oppressors" ought to reconsider their action...