Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worthless. It allows a man to grind up in a single night a whole half year's work, and the result is he remembers just enough to pass a fair examination the next day, and afterwards knows nothing about his subject. It is the exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college offers, is tempted, with the present system of examinations, to loaf. Such a man would oppose hour examinations...
...GET your Furniture repaired at POWER's, 30 Boyiston street, near post office...
...must persevere. Let a second and a third petition follow if necessary. If these fail, appeal to the graduates. There is no reason why, by an aroused public sentiment, together with the assistance of the graduates and those members of the faculty who favor the change, we should not get what we asked. One thing is certain-we must not longer be idle. Cannot you, editors of the CRIMSON, at once head a petition which shall ask that our nine be given a fair show in the future...
...GET your Furniture repaired at POWERS'S, 30 Boylston street, near post office...
...administration for not spending our surplus in the purchase of the national debt, but the blame of this lies with Senator Sherman himself, who funded this debt so that it is irredeemable except at a high premium. In answer to the charge that English merchants have spent money to get a foothold in our market, Mr. White said that in twenty-five years of close connection with tariff legislation he never knew of a shilling that was thus expended. Mr. Sherman also says that whoever favors lower duties opposes protection and favors foreigners, yet the strongly-protectionist First Congress thought...