Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...kind today. It gives England the ascendency in Afghanistan and equal rights in Persia and Thibet, but it frees Russia from all frontier troubles. France is the chief gainer by it, as the quarrels between England and Russia, which Germany has in the past turned to such good account against the French interest, are now obviated, and the affairs of France on three continents are thereby greatly improved and simplified...
...needless to add that the sooner such a collection is started the more value it will be to classes of the immediate future. There are probably a good many reports scattered throughout the University, which may be collected as a starter and an incentive to keep the file strictly up to date in the future...
...Gymnasium authorities, who are directly responsible to the corporation, and not with the inspector of Grounds and Buildings, as might be supposed. That the resident Executive Board has not taken the matter up has been through lack of any specific charges. Certainly such an excuse can no longer hold good. If use of the Gymnasium is to be more beneficial than dangerous, if the basketball team is to be given a fair chance, not only must the building be given a through renovation, but strict sanitary regulations must be enforced...
...investments, and distributing the sinking-fund payments over so large a number of years that, according to actual experience, they do not even keep pace with depreciation. In other words, the Corporation lends money to the Dining Association on a wasting or vanishing security. Moreover, with the plant in good condition, the income of the investment, to say nothing of the principal, is wholly dependent on the steady running of the Hall...
...period of examinations, many of which were held in rooms so cold that we could scarcely hold our pens, we are now compelled to sit by the hour in an atmosphere that makes accurate attention well-high impossible. It would be better to sit in our overcoats with good air, than to be suffocated at our work...