Word: home
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four of the whole number in the library was used at all last year, except by persons having access to the shelves and using books in a manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates used the library...
...will receive $75,000, and the local public library will have $30,000 on the death of Mr. Merrick's aunt, Mrs, A. D, Briggs, who is to have the income of that sum during her life. Thirty thousand dollars in real estate is given outright to the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children, and $15,000 more on the death of another beneficiary. Five thousand dollars goes to Harvard College to be used in assisting worthy students, descendants of the class of 1870, to which the testator belonged, being preferred...
Justin McCarthy, the great Irish champion for Home Rule in Ireland, will address the students of Cornell next Saturday evening. The subject of his address is "The Cause of Ireland...
...Assyrians were the Romans of Asia. Their monarch was the representative of their God. He did not isolate himself from the people as oriental governors generally did. The home of the races from which the Assyrians are descended, was between the Tigris and the Euphrates. The greater part was called Babylonia; Assyria was situated further north near the sources of the Tigris...
...imperfections of choice, so should their aim be to perfect choice, not to repress it. This moral authority is what the new education seeks. As the elective principle is essentially ethical, its limitations, if helpfully congruous, must be ethical too. They must be simply the means of bringing home to the young chooser the sacred conditions of choice, which conditions, if I rightly understand them, may compactly be entitled those of intentionality, information, and persistence. Many assert also that boys come to college with no clear intentions, not knowing what they want, waiting to be told. It is true...