Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Generally, however, the cause is the same as that which makes a private house, when finished, always cost its owner more than the estimates. The private company cannot be blamed for expenses that arise which were not expected, nor foreseen, any more than the private individual. But were any road to be rebuilt, experience bought at an excess cost of $30,000 per mile would show how construction and even maintenance expenses might be reduced so as to come within the limit of $30,000 allowed as normal average cost of construction per mile...
...greatest advantage of the new scheme is, as stated by the directors, that it would enable the Society to deal with all persons connected with the University. The Society ought to be a general agent for various objects, which it cannot touch at present. It ought, for instance, to print and sell at cost the various abstracts, summaries and outlines used in so many courses of instruction. It ought to import all the foreign text-books used. It cannot do these things while its dealings are restricted to its own members, an obstacle which is removed by the new scheme...
...base-ball season has just begun, and although begun so auspiciously for Harvard, it is fitting that we should consider now a restriction to which our nine has been lately subjected. Professional teams cannot be our adversaries on the diamond. The arguments used by our faculty in subjecting our nine to this handicap are well known, and seem sufficient to them; but if they should consider that old proverb, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," and should ponder over the fact that professionals not only play better ball, but play ball in a more gentlemanly...
...Saturday. To recall the past may seem undesirable, but Harvard men can never forget the demonstrations of joy and the enthusiasm which was displayed a year ago, in the New York theatres and elsewhere, over the "whitewashing" given the Harvard champions on their own grounds, and, therefore, we cannot deem it unmannerly to hint that the account is now square, and to declare that Harvard is able to compete once more on an equal footing with her New York opponents...
...ground that it is really a disguised form of running, and very often I agree with them. But it is not so in all cases; and there are many scrupulously fair walkers who can hopelessly beat most times made a quarter of a century ago, even if they cannot equal those made by the semi-runners of the present...