Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...family or other persons designated in his will. The Corporation, therefore, so far from depriving professors of a portion of their salaries, is in reality increasing them by five per cent and providing besides a competency for their families. The plan is certainly a commendable one, and will no doubt, with the proper limitation, be acceptable to those whom it most concerns...
...doubt what that motive is? Do not the numerous guide-books of Harvard, Cambridge, Boston, and Cincinnati speak for themselves? Their object was professedly, and properly enough, a financial speculation, and they met with as much success as they deserved. So long as their editor confined himself to such means, no Harvard student had any right to complain of his object. But when he sets himself up as a representative of the University, can we not question his right to do so? Heretofore young men have come to Harvard to study and to fit themselves for future usefulness...
After two hours' labor we cooked up the following exact accounts, which were duly forwarded and no doubt proved satisfactory. I recommend them to all Freshmen laboring under the infliction of a father "of business habits...
...appreciate the dramatic attempts of the thirteenth century in England, when Noah's Ark and Balaam's Ass were the only plays that had a "run." The next lecture, to be given at the same hour and place Monday, will be in reality the beginning, and we doubt not that those who attend the course will be introduced to much curious and valuable English literature to which they are now strangers...
...against smoking, and more especially against inhaling, and says "Vultures and wolves have been known to turn away from the dead body of a tobacco-user." This shows clearly that any person who uses tobacco does wrong, because he thereby deprives "vultures and wolves" of that which is, no doubt, their due. But as an argument against the weed its force will not be felt by any one who does not intend himself especially for wolf-meat...