Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...
...George A. Gordon preached in the chapel last evening from the text found in the 91st Psalm: "He that dwelleth in the secret places of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." The striking comparisons of the Psalm were enlarged upon by the speaker. Evil is likened to a snare. As the hare speeding along its accustomed path is caught suddenly in the noose of the hunter, so human beings are assailed unawares through their desires and habits by temptations of every kind Again, evil is like a pestilence. Society is filled with moral corruption...
...loofe floating ice which the tide carries from one bridge to the other. Above the Brookline street bridge, however, there is still a good deal of fixed ice, which it will take some time to break up. In places there are patches of clear water, but on the high flats and marshes there is very much ice which floats down as the tides flow off of the marshes and piles itself up in the river. There are two large coal schooners that were caught by the ice at Richardson and Bacon's wharf, and it is probable that tugs will...
...first paper on "Class Crews, Past and Present," is an interesting account of the beginnings and early development of the Harvard interest in aquatic sports. Very few students to-day know anything of the changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers...
...tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high and five and a half broad, and the total weight is twenty-five tons, of which the cover weighs ten. It is all of fine Parian marble. Several French savants are now studying it at Constantinople...