Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Laughlin discusses Mr. Marshall's "Economics of Industry," as far as it concerns "expenses of production," and Richard Aldrich concludes the "Notes and Memoranda," with a cogent and thoughtful essay on "profit-sharing." The number ends with the text of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland. This law is of especial interest to the students in Political Economy 7, since it explains the "progressive" property tax in Switzerland. The magazine as a whole, is a valuable on and keeps up the high reputation scored by its predecessor...
...this singular hostility to an undoubted need and trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach...
...Gunnison Country," by Ernest Ingersoll. There are four portraits, illustrating the first part of "Retrospections of the American Stage," by John Bernard. There are two purely literary papers, one on "The Brownings," by Miss Kate M. Rowland, of Baltimore. The other literary paper, by J. Heard, is a singularly cogent argument to show "Why Women should Study Shakespeare." The poetry is not abundant, but comprises such names as Celia Thaxter, John Vance Cheney and Louise Chandler Moulton...
...requirements for attendance at religious exercises. At Cornell we believe the same is true. It is a curious fact that these are the two most prominent examples of university co-education in this country. It may be that the fact is significant and that here may be found a cogent argument either for or against the introduction of co-education at Harvard and Columbia...
...there he became a member of the famous university debating-club, the Cambridge Union, and in that body, during that darkest period of our Civil War, when all England looked with sympathy upon the rebellion, he drew great attention to himself, both in great Britain and America, by his cogent and eloquent arguments in behalf of the Northern States. On his return he delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston a course of lectures on the University of Cambridge, which were afterward republished under the title of 'On the Cam.' Prof. Everett has since distinguished himself in various fields...