Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...your editorial seems to me fully justified, as regards both details and the general management. The stock of books and stationery is poorer now than for several years; and in the former department I can certainly add my voice to the general complaint of poor service. There was no attempt to make extra provision for the holiday season just past. The Society will no longer take orders for wood of good enough quality to be worth burning. The old discount on coal, and on the laundry also, is gone. The work done by the latter is disgraceful. For each...
...conclusion, Mr. Chaplin wished to emphasize the fact that the university is not a reformatory institution. The faculty refuses to hamper good men in order partially to control the very small percentage of bad men. In so large an institution as Harvard the government has no time to attempt the reformation of individual bad students. If a man is unworthy of Harvard, the only course open to the faculty is to force him to leave college...
...quizzing of the recitation room. The book is by its nature somewhat of a venture. In its arrangement and its purpose, however, it is admirable and cannot fail to be of service to law students. We hope the success of the present volume on Contracts will warrant a like attempt in other departments...