Word: gain
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After Mayor Bancroft's invitation for Harvard to join in the procession on the 3rd of June it seems to me that it would only be gentlemanly for us to accept. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose by marching. The Faculty have purposely begun the examinations one day earlier than usual and have allowed us the third of June for a holiday. It will be extremely hard for anyone to study on that day even if he was so inclined, with a procession four miles long passing under his window. This is not a personal matter which...
...Constantinople and Turkey.- (1) Egypt under Mehemet Ali had become consolidated: J. E. Bowen in Pol. Sci. Quar. (June, 1886).- (2) Egypt had conquered Syria and Arabia. (3) Had broken loose from Turkey.- (4) Had received a hereditary sovereignty of her own from the Porte: Ibid.- (5) In these gains Egypt was favored by Russia.- (b) England insured to prevent construction of, and gain control over, the Suez Canal: Ibid.- (c) England wanted railroads through Egypt...
...June, 1884).- (c) It has for its object England's self-interest.- (d) French is the official and judicial language, and sympathies are all French: Contemp. Rev. 67, 390 (March '95).- (1) England has failed utterly to introduce the English language, and has thus failed to gain control over the native population.- (e) Egyptians despise the English: Fort. Rev. 63, 511.- (1) Because their policy is weak and vacillating: Ibid...
...treaty device. And, more than this, it falls short of the positive advantages which a permanent court must give. It is still a promise against a reality, and so long as it is possible for diplomatists to dodge the meaning of treaties, and so long as they can gain by doing so, such a treaty system must remain obviously inferior to a permanent court. To sum it all up in a word, the way to be sure of a court is to have it, and the only way to have it is to provide it in advance...
...greater question of religious belief. The very essence of religion is to propose to us, first, that the best things are the more eternal; second, that we are better off by believing this truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes...