Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that is now brought forward was advanced, namely, that the country would be flooded with the products of the cheaper labor of the continent, and that her manufactures would be destroyed. In spite of this, England is now the greatest manufacturing country in the world, and wages have risen instead of being lowered by competition with pauper labor. The working men are just beginning to find out who pays the import taxes; they know that their house rent is increased to enrich the lumber merchants of Maine, and that the limitation of the market by protection strengthens the "trusts" 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, he seems to have chosen very inferior men as the proper representatives of their classes. He certainly lost sight of the possibilities of that devotion to an ideal which must be present in all leaders...
Prof. Hill has decided to allow the substitution of a thesis upon one of the authors prescribed for English A, instead of the essay in the final examination. The thesis must be from five to ten pages in length and must be handed in on or before...
...times. What are our young poets doing to resist this tendency, and how are they advancing the cause of the ideal? In London they do mere dilettante work; they are wedded to sonnets, triolets and rondeaus. They spend their time in a mere elaboration of saying nothing, instead of appealing to the people. William Morris has recently entered upon the true task of the poet. He sees that as life is not ideal there is all the more need and opening for poetry. Walt Whitman has also tried to face this nineteenth century world boldly; and, whatever we may think...
...there is any college team which deserves the hearty support of Harvard College, and which is, instead, shamefully neglected, it is the Lacrosse team. Year after year this team has trained patiently without any encouragement from the college. Year after year it has brought back the championship to Harvard, sometimes all alone in its glory. And what comes of it? Is any celebration arranged in honor of the event? Are the members of the winning team rewarded even with the faintest praise for their exertions and success? Are cups voted them? The CRIMSON devotes half a column to an editorial...