Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forming a general group, and the the group is subdivided minutely on the question of future usefulness. This is manifestly absurd. Future usefulness, since it is so largely an unknown quantity, may be taken as a basis for a general group, but nothing more. Needs, on the other hand, can be determined with considerable accuracy, and offer a far more practicable basis for subdivision. As matters stand, the rational order of things is totally reversed. The test, fit for subdividing, is used for the general group; the test fit only for the general group is used for the subdivision...
...VARSITY GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS.- Concert tonight in Brattle Hall for benefit of Social Union. Men will please be on hand at ten minutes of eight...
...Leighton Parks, D. D., of Boston, preached last night at Appleton Chapel from the text, "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." This speech, he said, is a declaration of patriotism. Patriotism is well defined as the sacrifice of self for the good of the country. The most remarkable acts of patriotism come then naturally in the time of war which is of its very nature a time of sacrifice. But there is plenty of room for the spirit of patriotism in peace. If a man is willing to sacrifice himself for his country...
...naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when ground, as oatmeal, barleymeal...
INTERCLASS TRACK GAMES.- All candidates for the class teams should hand in their names to the class captains at once...