Word: exception
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year no one will allege that the Christmas Advocate neglects Christmas. It contains a Christmas leader, two Christmas poems, and five Christmas stories. Moreover, except for two or three editorial paragraphs and three short poems it contains nothing else...
...list of all College rooms, except those in Wadsworth House, Conant, and several in College House, with blank forms of applications will be ready for delivery at the Bursar's office on March 6. Applications may be made before April 2, and the assignment will be made by lot on April 4. In the assignment of a room with two bed-rooms, preference will be given to an application signed by two students who will occupy the room together...
...trials will be held, so that every man will have a chance to show what he can do. The trials will be held on Saturday, June, 6, in Chicago for western athletes and in either New York, or Philadelphia for the east. Trials will be held in all events except the Marathon run and the ten-mile walk, for which the men will be picked by the committee. Three or five, men will be entered in each event, according to the resources available for expenses...
...many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human. One of the most wholesome things that an American can do is to read a good bit of Washington's correspondence during the Revolutionary War. Then he can appreciate the constancy and grandeur...
...last half century. This question cannot be arbitrarily dismissed. It is far too grave to be left for solution to the partisan. He has only one policy to consider-how to get votes. Neither the morals, the economics or the common sense of any proposition interest him except in so far as they may be employed to secure his selfish ends. To the Radical, Municipal Ownership is the remedy of all the abuses of popular sovereignty. To the Reactionary it is the victory of Socialism, a fatal blow at the rights of property. But there must be a middle course...