Word: different
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means by the "good" of the nine is uncertain; but if it refers to increased efficiency in playing, we would remark that it was not the purpose of the new rules to increase the skill of the nine but to rid it of professional tendencies. Of course opinions will differ as to whether this is a good thing or not, but, as far as we are able to discover the sentiment of the college in the matter, it is on the affirmative side of the question...
President Eliot, though avoiding the matter directly, spoke of the predicament in which the university was placed by being compelled to give to Governor Butler the honorary title of LL. D. "We are always prosperous at Cambridge," said President Eliot. "Years differ a little in regard to numbers and in regard to pecuniary gains, but we are always growing, and always gaining; and if we did not we should still be prosperous and happy. For, after all, it is with institutions very much as it is with individual men; happiness comes from the free, natural, useful play of noble faculties...
...operative tickets differ from the old ones in requiring the signature of the member. The list of affiliated tradesmen is no longer printed on the back...
...close proximity to the U. S. Courts; but there is a danger that this attraction may draw the student from his regular study and, on the whole, the Harvard professors are content to have the undivided time and attention of their pupils. The methods of the two schools differ widely. The Boston school teaches the principles of the law by lectures and refers the student to cases for illustration, while the Harvard professor teaches the principles of the law from the cases them selves, and compels the student to verify them by a long list of references. The plan...
...Sever 3, Third Junior Forensic will be due. Subjects: 1. Can a State do anything to make hard times easier? 2. Is the fair price of an article precisely equivalent to its market value? 3. Ought Americans to take more time for exercise and recreation? 4. Should poetic diction differ from that of prose? 5. Should freedom of debate in legislative assemblies ever be restricted...