Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...foot preparations for the first play, but when once interest was aroused it had no bounds. Well knowing that to-day many feel as I do about this, I think that I need only mention the matter, to set the ball in motion without delay. It would no longer be an experiment. Other colleges have repeatedly given plays, and in every case success has been the result...
...Immigration should be further restricted: - (a) On social grounds: - The proportion of paupers, diseased and criminal, is great. Messages and Documents, ('80-91) pp. 85: - (b) On economic grounds: - (1) No longer needed to develop the country. Pop. Sci. Mo., XLI. 762. Oct. '92 - (2) They lower wages and the standard of living; Forum XIV. 113. (Sept. '92): - (3) Unskilled occupations already overcrowded. Smith, 117. - (c) On political grounds. - (1) The Immigrants do not understand our institutions. Bryce Am. Com. I. 634. - (2) They become tools of Machine politicians; Smith. 13. - (3) They form communities by themselves, Bryce...
...objected to that this prayer is merely a means of strengthening one's spiritual muscle and that it makes no difference whether there is any answer or not; but if a man once gets this idea, prayer loses all significance for him. He will no longer pray when he can expect no reply. Again, it is claimed that the answering of prayers involves a violation of the laws of nature. But God does not interfere with these laws. He is rather constantly working in nature. People speak of special answers to prayer as if to imply that God only occasionally...
...ability, or because the training which they gave made the members more valuable, than those who had not belonged to the freshman clubs. In looking over the records, it is noticeable that there are very few freshmen on the 'varsity clubs, but as a class has been longer in college, it furnishs each year to the 'varsity clubs more and more men. There is not space to show in detail, but it is enough to state that as freshmen '88 had three men on the Glee Club, and as seniors they had twelve. Adding together the number of men that...
...actually are because those in them work in the sight of the public who can know how well they work and can follow their progress. With the student however, it is different; he works secretly and slowly, we cannot know, except periodically, the progress he makes and it is longer before he obtains recognition...