Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish to correct a mistake made yesterday in regard to History 11. Recitations will be held as usual, except on Saturdays, until after the blue books are corrected...
...looking over the list of lectures to be given this year to students of the university, we regret to see that no arrangements have been made by the powers that be for lectures in Political Economy, except for those on Free Trade and Protection. Now, last year, students taking Political Economy, and especially members of the elementary course, Political Economy 1, derived great pleasure and profit from the lectures given under the auspices of the Finance Club. The lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson on the subject, "What makes the Rate of Wages," and that by Mr. Gamaliel Bradford, on "Political...
...periodicals are put under the head periodical, except society reports which are entered under special topics. Catalogues of other libraries, especially of the Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public, and Brooklyn Libraries, are of great use in enabling one to find the book wanted. For finding magazine articles, Poole's Index is invaluable. There are also numerous biographies on various subjects, such as Mathematics, Political Economy, etc., which are easy of access, and of great use. To acquire a facility in the use of catalogue and reference books is a matter of time and patience, but when acquired...
...lowest circle of hell. It was in Milton that the Devil became truly grand. Here he is represented as comparatively free, warring against the Almighty, detiant even when conquered by superior force. I am far from joining in the general admiration for "Paradise Lost." The poem, except the part which deals with Satan, seems to me exceedingly formal and wanting in true inspiration. God and the whole heavenly council talk like the divines of the Westminster Assembly. Adam and Eve are a typical Puritan and his wife. The heavenly and infernal hosts fight a sort of celestial Marston Moor...
...same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean sometimes action and sometimes only permission; in the first case, action becoming possible becomes at the same time necessary, so that freedom means that a given...