Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they ever believed in the general principles of their old party they are unlikely to find themselves in as full accord with its opponents, though heartily with them in some particular. b. They loose their political influence by exerting it in too many directions. c. They eventually gain the enmity of both parties and are tolerated only in the times of necessity. d. They way to reform a party is to stay in it and help it to correct its mistakes. Pamphlets on campaign...
...representation according to the above figures which will enter Harvard is 41 per cent., while Yale gets 23 per cent. This shows a loss of 9 per cent. for Harvard and a gain of 5 per cent for Yale over the figures of last year. In numbers Harvard has gained one-third, while the Yale contingency has just doubled...
...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...
...have taken part in all the changes of the past thirty years, the present proposal seems to threaten to destroy by one blow all that has been gained during that period by the persistent labor of a whole generation of scholars. The present senior year may fairly be said to represent the net gain in scholarship which Harvard College has made since 1860; and if this year is lost we must begin again at the foot of the long and toilsome hill which we have slowly climbed...
...Academy now has a total membership of 350 238 in the classical course and 118 in the English. This is a gain of eleven over last year. The representation is very general and among the places represented are Bulgania, Trinidad and all parts of the United States...