Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then considered to be rather an idle occupation, more like amusement than serious work, and the life of a musician did not present an attractive prospect. But of late years music has been more free from this stigma, and all the arts are meeting with public appreciation. A musician cannot become a rich man, but he may be a very happy one. Unless he has an independent income, he must do more or less teaching, and, indeed, ability to teach is a requirement of the greatest importance...
...sorry to state that Harvard cannot row with Cornell this year. as we are unable to be at New London long enough to row more than one fixed race with Yale...
Inasumch as the reduction in price is for the benefit of members of the university who cannot afford the higher price, it is to be hoped that no attempt will be made by the students to purchase $1 tickets for outsiders. Positively no $1 tickets will be received at the door from anyone but members of the university...
Mohammed was not an educated man but he was a man of wonderful power and intelligence. He doubtless got many of his ideas from the Jews, but we cannot but feel that he worked under a strong inspiration of his own. His writings are divided into two classes: those which were delivered in Mecca, and those which were delivered in Medina. The suras of the first class are enthusiastic and pathetic; those of the second class are characterized by cooler and better ordered thought...
...bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot be controlled, and the canal by way of lake Nicaragua is left in sole possession of the field...