Word: affections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Such a breach of the custom, so long established as to be almost law, would be a disgrace to its officers and would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
...lecturer, describing the influence of rent on the distribution of wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying...
Some of the colleges affect to disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate opinion should, to a certain extent, be respected. Indeed, this belief has been carried so far that in one or two instances attempts have been made to establish a system of self government among the college classes. Undergraduate opinion, it should always be remembered, is likely before long to become...
...workings, of the results, direct and indirect, of the tendencies and even the true aims, of college athletics. Both sides, says a prominent Princeton senior, in an able article published in the initial number of The Student and Statesman, assume a false premise, viz., that the inter-collegiate contests affect but a small number of men. It is time that those who understand from daily experience the actual working of the whole system, should have a hearing. The inter-collegiate contest is the main point of attack. The opponents of the system assert that college sports and the benefits arising...
...chemical change can affect manganese...