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...number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems highly improbable. Certainly, even if there was a small inconvenience occasionally, it would be more than counterbalanced by the larger number of men admitted to the hall. It is a clear case of the greatest good to the greatest number...
...contrary to the theory of our political system: Public Opinion VIII. 104 (Nov., 1889). - (a) Tends to impair local self government. - (b) A radical step toward interference by the general government: N. Am. Rev., 144, 429. (April...
...accomplishes important beneficial results. - (a) It eases the money market. - (b) It does not impair the gold standard: Speech of Mr. Conger, Cong. Record, '90, p.7090...
...Shearman, Yale, '89, who has been taking a post graduate course has left college. His loss will seriously impair Yale's chances for the Mott Haven cup this year. For the last four years he has been a prize winner, and was expected to win the pole vault and broad jump this year...
...when his physical powers are in the freshness of their early vigor; and the strain which men put upon themselves in active business or professional life is now so great that, unless they faithfully develop their physical resources as a matter of fidelity to their own selves, they constantly impair their vitality and consume their strength. With all that is said for athletics among the younger men it is believed that their necessity among the older men is very imperfectly understood, and that the physical exercise of men in middle life might be increased many fold without bringing them...