Word: great
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great bargain is offered on the following list of Nimo's Classics at 60 cents a volume...
...college authorities propose to lay out a new athletic ground back of Divinity Hall if the expense does not appear to be too great. The lot contains four acres and will provide room for at least two or three new baseball fields. Members of Engineering 2 have been surveying the field for some time past...
...Warren's story, "A Bit of Official Tragedy," is unlike most of the articles contributed to the Monthly, but it is worthy of space in the magazine. It is a serious story of human life. The writer depicts with great sincerity the awful influence disappointments and Jesertion may exert upon human passion. The tale is told in a simple manner and the artistic effect is increased by a careful avoidance of all vulgarity...
...would seem after our experience with fires in the college dormitories this year that it was about time to remedy some of the existing defects in our means for extinguishing fires. It hardly seems necessary to wait for another blaze before taking the needed steps. The great trouble in case of fires in the college buildings (spectators of the Matthews holocaust must have noticed it) is the absence of a hydrant in the yard and the consequent necessity of extending a line of hose from the engine stationed a block or more away from the scene of the conflagration...
...reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons, even American works like those of Perry and Sumner following in the line of foreign teaching. As the result, the great majority of college students are free traders at their graduation. After leaving college, however, they see the actual condition of trade and the perplexing questions growing out of the selfish rivalry of grasping nations to monopolize commerce, which the college professors did not. The result of experience is to make the free...