Word: constant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rattling of papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University as a whole. Strangers visiting this course would receive a very low impression of Harvard and Harvard men in general. It is the place of every self-respecting...
...second place it seems to be thought that the time spent by students in arranging for the trips, as well as the physical strain attendant upon the constant travel during the vacation, seriously affects their performance of college duties. This, we cannot believe is borne out by facts. If it were, in some instances, we see no reason, as we have said before, why they should not be treated individually...
Much of the work is of photographic nature and this together with the observations keep many of the instruments in constant use, among which are the eleven-inch Draper photographic telescope, the fourteen-inch and six-inch equatorial telescopes, the eight-inch transit circle and the Bruce photographic telescope. The Harvard Observatory and the Kiel Obse. votary have been selected by astronomers as centres for the prompt announcement of astronomical discoveries...
...Great agricultural resources. Sugar, Maize, Coffee, Cacao, Fruits.- (2) Great mineral resources: Gold, Copper, Iron, etc.- (3) Great resources of forests: Mahogany, other valuable cabinet woods.- (b) Such an influx of American capital is impossible under Spanish control of Cuba.- (1) Constant danger of revolution.- (2) Oppressive commercial restrictions...
...Winking at filibustering and shipments of arms should not be countenanced.- (a) Constant care of our government has been against this: Wharton's Digest, I. p. 386.- (b) Unjust to Spain.- (1) We are at peace with her.- (c) Establishes a dangerous precedent.- (1) Similar expeditions against friendly powers would be encouraged.- (d) Such expeditions are contrary to our own law: Revised Statutes U. S. 5281-5291.- (e) Contrary to International Law: R. H. Dana, Wheaton's Int. Law, 536n...