Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball controversy progresses it becomes more and more evident how firmly the Yale management has trenched itself behind the constitution of the Foot-Ball Association, and how little Harvard has to base its claims upon except the honor of the Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain...
...nature of the teacher, of the leader, and by the message itself. We have demonstrations in mathematics in which authority and reason are our own teachers, while in the demonstrations of the spirit no authority or arguments can be sufficient for us, because our souls cannot be touched except by the spirit. Every mind requires demonstrations according to its own nature, and only God knows our inner natures, and can respond to our demands...
...greater profits in this way. The combination of capital, by producing on a large scale, reduces the cost of production, and lowers prices, till competitors are driven out of business by being undersold. When the complete control of the market is thus secured prices are raised without any limit except the greed of the trust. The very idea of a trust is to abolish competition. Owing to the secrecy observed in regard to profits, outside capital, notoriously timid, is not attracted to the business. Trusts today are in their infancy. The Standard Oil Company has begun to absorb...
...past two years, will doubtless be hailed with satisfaction throughout the college. Permission to build a tank in Hemenway gymnasium has been refused, but there is no reason why one cannot be constructed in the old gymnasium on the delta opposite Memorial Hall. The building is now useless, except as a storehouse for all sorts of rubbish, and seems in every way fitted for the construction of a tank. How much such a tank will cost, it is impossible to say, but in a matter of such vital importance to the crew, subscriptions, both from graduates and undergraduates, should...
...match games, races, or athletic exhibitions shall take place in Cambridge except after the last recitation hour on Saturday, or after four o'clock in the afternoon...