Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jersey Water Company, and had charge of the water supply of the city of Newark. He is now engaged in private practice in New York, and has been consulting engineer for the Niagara Falls Water Power Co. His lecture this evening will be fully illustrated by lantern slides, and cannot fail to be interesting. It will be open to the public...
...been decided to enlarge the Mandolin Club. Heretofore the number of mandolins has been restricted to six; thus the club has always lacked a breadth and volume of tone. The change proposed cannot fail to ensure success for the coming season, as talent is not lacking...
...without due knowledge, that intercollegiate football can not and will not be improved, either by the players themselves, or by a specially appointed Athletic Committee who are far better qualified to consider the subject than are they. On the strength of this assumption, they have taken action which we cannot but consider too hasty and wholly unjust. The blow which would be struck at the game of football itself by the prevention of intercollegiate contests, is one which can not at present be justified...
...expectation of the Yale Andover Club to award annual prizes of considerable worth to the two men from Phillips Andover Academy who pass the best entrance examination for the academic and scientific departments respectively. This plan cannot fail to be of great benefit both to this preparatory school and to the University. The club will give up its annual banquet, believing that little actual benefit is afforded through it, and will hold, later in the year, a joint Andover-Exeter reunion, thus keeping alive among the students an interest in their preparatory school. This new precedent inaugurated by the Andover...
...which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that we are taking the Nation too seriously, and that the expressions we quote are acknowledged hyperpolae, assumed for rhetorical effect. Admitting that, we cannot see that there is any increase of dignity...