Word: adds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which will be defective in sight. The cause of this great bane to humanity has been assigned to many things. Bad light, small types German text, light shining directly on the face, and the bad position of desks, have all had their supporters. Doubtless all of these may add to the trouble, but the chief cause is not among them. It is the color of the paper and the ink which we use. No one dissents from the opinion of Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black...
...miles from Princeton. I confess when I heard of the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court that the property I had already given would be taxed, it made me sick. I was sick for two weeks. I have not yet gotten over it. I am prepared to add largely to my donations, and some of my friends, whose fathers made their fortunes in Louisiana, have promised me they will give $300, 000 more to the university, but they will not do so if their donated property is to be taxed. Something ought to be done and done...
...animals can run into evil courses, become vegetables which cannot? This indeed amounts to throwing up the game of life and admitting that the world is worse off the older it gets. It is the business of the true culture to point out the landmarks that verify progress, to add to the experience of the individual the experience of the race, to prove that no effort is possible without its result-and no result possible without effort; to send the young man out into life equipped to make a place in it, and with faith which shall never grow...
...library committee at Yale are planning to add another gallery to the Linonia and Brother's library as the accommodations at present are not adequate...
...scheme to add a school of mines to the departments at Cornell is under consideration...