Word: make
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...time-honored, we cannot believe that it was entirely the fault of the students, and therefore the removal of the venerable instructor to a field where his great abilities will be better appreciated may have been the right and proper thing to do. But this does not make it at all clear that there ought to be no instruction whatever in this particular study. How can this growing evil, then, be remedied? Certainly not by the present action of the College. For just as matters in that quarter are shown to be at their worst, they think proper to give...
...Then, it is true, the gas burned in the entries till only half past ten; but a full blaze could be got at any part of the night in the basements. Now the brightest light in many of the buildings is only a glimmer, that hardly serves to make the darkness visible...
This is an initiatory step in the right direction, and a similar frankness in all boating transactions would do much toward rooting out those dishonest trickeries which are beginning to make their appearance...
...choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately the name of the author is withheld, so that we cannot communicate our solutions to her; otherwise we should make haste to discuss the whole matter in a correspondence...
GENTLEMEN, - In an interesting notice of the Gray Engravings, in the last number of your paper, the writer referred to my proposed scheme of photographing the collection. His statements were, I believe, correct, excepting in one point which nearly concerns the publishers; and for their sake I make this correction. The photographs, it was said, were to be on sale at a book-store in Cambridge; they may be, but not through College authority. Messrs. Osgood & Co. issue the photographs in their own style and at their own price, and sell them through any dealer they please; but in return...