Word: half
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...
...voluntary course in Embryology, given by Dr. Minot in the Medical School, which has in previous years sometimes been counted on petition as a half-course for the degree of Bacherlor of Arts, has been counted on petition as a half-course for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, has been given up; and, therefore, the students who intend to secure leave of absence this coming year to atten the Medical School, and who have planned to take this course to complete the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, will no longer have this opportunity...
...races. The only outside winner was Sydney West of the Hull B. C., who defeated C. A. Hurley of the Weld in the novice singles. In the junior four-oared race, the Weld made a new record of 9 m. 11 2-5s. for the mile and a half course, beating the former record of 9m. 17 2-5s., made in '95 by the B. A. A. four. The last race, that between the senior eight of the Weld B. C. and the B. A. A. and Millstream eights, was by far the most interesting, as the three...
...fourth annual regatta of the Metropolitan Amateur Rowing Association will take place on the Back Bay course beginning at 11 o'clock this morning. Twenty minutes will be allowed for each race. The races will be upstream from the Union Boat House, one mile and a half with a turn, except the eight-oared events which will be rowed down stream, one mile and a half with the finish at the Union Boat House...
Railroad tickets to and from New London for the boat race will be put on sale next Monday at Leavitt and Peirce's. They will be $2.50 and are good only on the special train which will leave in the morning, arriving at New London two hours and a half before the race, and return to Boston the same night. There will also be round trip tickets on sale at $4.00, good for three days on regular trains...