Word: elements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brilliancy of the man who started the story cannot be surpassed by his evident malicious intent. In New York Harvard stands as the embodiment of Boston and Boston's peculiarities. For that reason she is assailed, but with an animosity which is far out of proportion to the Boston element in our population. But the New York press would do well to remember that Harvard is not a local affair although the prevailing influence here may come from the shores of Massachusetts Bay. Hence if they have any spite to vent upon this section of the country a much better...
...first attempts to regulate railroad rates were made by the so-called "granger legislation" in the Western States. This term is not very accurate, but it arose from the fact that it was the farmer element that used its influence to bring it about. The lowest rates were taken as a basis for the whole scale of transportation. The example which Illinois set in this matter was followed by other states as Wisconsin in 1884. The result was very disastrous, and foreign capital was no longer willing to invest in the railroads of those sections...
...draw an analogy from college boating, what is the college regatta of the year if it is not at New London, between the two university crews of Harvard and Yale? And why is this paramount to the intercollegiate regatta rowed on Lake George or Saratoga? Because the element of chance, in winning, is less. That is one reason; and another is, that the interest in the contest is more concentrated, being centred on only two crews...
...motto of the society is "Ars celare artem." The society has no rooms of its own, but meets in the rooms of the various members. In these meetings it has been customary to keep the literary aims of the society firmly in view, and not to allow the social element to preponderate...
...most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised to throw the opposite team off its balance and drag them across; these pulls were said to be as exciting as the severest pulls to-day, but a much greater element of luck entered into them...