Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pulpit, or on the legislative floor. This desire has been enforced by the decisions of every set of judges who have been selected to award the Boylston prizes at the annual public exhibition. The aim now is to give perfect command of the body in clear and effective utterance in private speech and before an audience. The method by which Mr. Jones seeks to attain this is peculiar to himself, and is the result of a good deal of study on his part. It has so far the confidence of the corporation that, in the absence of any person fitted...
...sold or delivered without cash in hand, that all second-hand goods deposited for sale are at owners' risk, that all coal ordered is paid for in advance, and that the society depends - not on its commission, but on its membership fees - for its support, it will be made clear that no loss can accrue to any one from the society's failure, and that the only things which can cause its failure are embezzlement or the dwindling away of its members. While these figures serve to show the actual purchasing fund applied by the society, the following will illustrate...
...education of girls, they would be speedily adopted in the colleges for girls. It looks as if this clamor for co-education was a part of that absurdity which is striving to beat down all the barriers between the sexes. The uses of co-education are not all clear. I can suppose that the young men in an institution where co-education prevailed would be benefited by the constant association with the other sex; that their manners would be refined, and that they would early grow out of their boyish roughness. But I cannot imagine equal benefit to the girls...
...Globe sustains Harvard in the Columbia matter in spite of the graduates, and says very pertinently concerning the recently published memorial : "It was not then forwarded to Columbia, but now, when both clubs have published clear statements of their action, when the feeling of indignation which prevailed when that paper was signed has in great measure subsided, when the facts which the Harvard representatives rightfully kept to themselves till the proper time for their disclosure (the meeting of the H. U. B. C.) arrived, and now, when it is clear that the whole thing was the result of several misunderstandings...
...suppose that the explanation of the Harvard crew would so easily have satisfied the entire meeting of the club, composed as it was largely of men who had come there fearing that the crew were in the wrong and Columbia in the right, unless that explanation were perfectly clear and reasonable, as it undoubtedly...