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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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One would suppose that enough good stationery had been expended on the question, "Does a college education fit a man for business pursuits?" Yet the January Lippincott sees fit to grapple with this question again and without regard to fact or logic settles it in the negative. It would be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

Notices, if not more than five lines, inserted in this column for 50 cents each insertion, or $2.00 a week. For over five lines the rates are doubled. "Lost" and "found" notices, if short, inserted once free; every additional insertion, 50 cents. All notices must be paid for in advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

The dynamos are also considerably modified, thought the differences are not evident to the untrained eye, as in the case of the lamps. The inventor claims for these dynamos a capacity of fifteen or more lamps per horse power against eight or ten by all other systems. But the great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Electric Light, or Harvard As It Might Be. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

These annual current expenses amount to nine hundred dollars. If, therefore, the college charges for the light furnished the same price that the light now costs the students, namely, nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or nineteen hundred dollars in round numbers, it will not only receive money enough to pay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Electric Light, or Harvard As It Might Be. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

As the electric light is admittedly of better quality per se than gas, so that in the first case the college is working in behalf of the gas companies, and in the second, in behalf of the students. And if, as is probable, the college does-not obtain as much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Electric Light, or Harvard As It Might Be. | 2/2/1886 | See Source »

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