Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least $2000 more is needed to carry the club through this year clear of debt. '90 has not yet been thoroughly canvassed, but many who have been asked have refused to subscribe at all. This is the more strange in view of the fact that the freshmen have given as much as the seniors in former years. Last year '89 paid $753, and '86 the same. It is hoped that all who can subscribe will do so, any sum, however small, being acceptable. The club is now, as I said, free of debt, and it rests wholly with the college...
...Hangs. Doesn't always draw oar clear in. Not enough difference between stroke and recover...
...lamentable to see how few undergraduates are able to give an inquiring outsider true and concise knowledge of the working system of our universisy. Most of us are able to explain the nature of the various courses of instruction, and to make clear the requirements for a degree. Beyond this the knowledge of only a very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing...
...articles of the journal, the lively and trustworthy treatment of the great practical subjects, such as the account of the "Southwestern Strike" and the Knights of Labor, received due praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear, reliable and concise discussions of the great economical questions. Amid the confused mass of economic literature of to-day, when superficial writers are so abundant, when a flood of pamphlets, often as obscene in language as they are mistaken in facts, threatens to involve the student in endless perplexity...
...accomplish one purpose - the bringing together of professors and students. Both write of the club as though it were something well known to them; but such is not the case with most of us. If there are similar clubs, they are but little known; if your correspondents have a clear idea of what the club is to be, they certainly have not spread it abroad among their fellows; in our darkness we cry: "Do stop reasoning about the advantages and disadvantages of such a club, long enough to tell us what the club shall be." When we know this...