Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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On the same subject the News says: "It is with great pleasure that we learn of the revocation of the Harvard faculty's decrees forbidding foot-ball. This course was taken, it seems, in response to a popular feeling among the students and professors, that the game as played under...
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...
Let it be granted, then, to start with, that a man has a fair knowledge of the more mechanical side of writing, the question for him to settle is in what direction he shall turn his skill. If men carefully thought over this problem, the standard of work in our...
The kind of composition which we slight most, is that in which a number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet...
In critical essays, reviews, etc., a man draws his own conclusions from given data. Of course it is useful to us to form judgments, but our judgments are of small value to the public, - of less value than the simple facts upon which they are equally able to pass criticism...