Word: clue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Daily Themes" treat of a variety of topics, and are all well worth reading. "The Library" gives a possible clue to the success of Yale in athletics." "On the Cars" is an amusing sketch of a "fat fidgety old woman," and "A Beggar," one of the best, is full of pathos...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- "Reuben Clue...
...progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics can best be gathered, short of the verdict of the polls, by knowing what the students think. Thus, if this year's college statistics be compared with those of earlier years, it is obvious that there will be some clue as to whether there is any change in the political drift and in what direction...
...could have some clue to the following points: How a course is taught, whether by lectures alone, or in connection with written work; of what it consists; whether the student is expected to write theses; whether a knowledge of French and German and Latin is required or an advantage; how much work is necessary in consulting original authorities in the Library, we could make a much better choice amongst the courses open...
...that the strongest part, of our nation has been towards strictness of conscience (Hebraism). They have made the secondary the principal at the wrong moment, and the principal they have at the wrong moment treated as secondary. Everywhere we see the beginnings of confusion, and we want a clue to some sound order and authority. This we can only get by going back upon the actual instincts and forces which rule our life, seeing them as they really are, connecting them with other instincts and forces, and enlarging our whole view and rule of life." If these words apply with...