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Word: far (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Dwight of Yale Delivers a Lecture to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

Professor Laughlin discusses Mr. Marshall's "Economics of Industry," as far as it concerns "expenses of production," and Richard Aldrich concludes the "Notes and Memoranda," with a cogent and thoughtful essay on "profit-sharing." The number ends with the text of Article 19 of the Constitution of the Canton de Vaud in Switzerland. This law is of especial interest to the students in Political Economy 7, since it explains the "progressive" property tax in Switzerland. The magazine as a whole, is a valuable on and keeps up the high reputation scored by its predecessor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

...Freshman Banjo Club is said to be far superior to the University Banjo Club. It consists of several banjos, piccolo banjos, mandolins and guitars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »

...Monthly for January appears today. As a whole this number is an improvement on the three previous numbers of this college year, and it is far superior to the December number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »

...article on "The Writings of Count Leon Tolstoi" by Mr. Berenson is an interesting paper and goes far to make up the interest in this number. And though not well acquainted with Tolstoi, we should say that he had been fairly judged and perhaps placed fully as high as he deserves to be. The whole is a good production, yet for enjoyable reading it might well have been given to us in more monosyllabic English. There is nothing so forcible in writing as honest, unaffected English words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »

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