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Word: farness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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Greater publicity would go far toward securing less corruption in our city governments. Not only should the meetings of the board be open to the public, but the proceedings and the auditing accounts should also be published at short intervals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST GODKIN LECTURE | 6/1/1908 | See Source »

...popular control of our city governments. State supervision has enormously increased in recent years, practically all the taxing powers of the city having been taken away, and lodged in the hands of the state legislature. This tendency is to be encouraged, since the interests of cities are now so far-reaching that they can be protected only by the state, as those of the state are guarded by the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST GODKIN LECTURE | 6/1/1908 | See Source »

...much poetical thought and fine imaginative expression. Finally, the drama is marked by a quite extraordinary intensity,-an intensity which not only permeates and broadens the symbolism, but which gives to the flashes of wit an illuminating power raising even the lighter parts of the play to a level far above what is suggested by our summary of the action...

Author: By W.a. Neilson., | Title: Percy MacKaye's "The Searecrow" | 5/27/1908 | See Source »

...successful coach of one year's experience; but seven defeats out of the last eight games played have shattered any early season ambitions. And yet those who have seen most of the games in the recent defeats have felt that the team has great latent possibilities and is far from the form of which it is capable. Princeton, with a team of experienced players, is in championship form; Yale is fast rounding into shape. We undeniably have the individual ability; why not some team-play and victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BASEBALL TEAM. | 5/25/1908 | See Source »

...already pledged. The class of 1908 has less than a month left of undergraduate life and only 248 men have made any response to the Treasurer's original request for subscriptions. Considerably less than half of the amount due has been paid in, and the total amount subscribed so far, $10,795, is much below the average. The report of the 1907 class Treasurer shows a total available fund of $15,039 received from 408 subscribers. It is plain that if 1908 is going to come up to the record set by last year's class a large sum will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SENIOR CLASS FUND. | 5/23/1908 | See Source »

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