Word: making
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaking last night was very creditable and the delivery was especially pleasing. The weaknesses were want of form in massing points, a bad tendency to make unsupported statements and to draw unauthorized inferences, and evident inability to judge the real value of an argument. Though, because of these faults, there was no really strong speech, the speeches were all equally fluent and energetic...
...rumored that next year the Cambridge authorities will make an attempt to go still further in the taxation of the University property. By the Supreme Court decision in the Williams College litigation it was found to be possible to assess professors' houses belonging to Massachusetts colleges, and this was accordingly done at Williams, Tufts and Harvard. Recently the Foxcroft Club was taxed for the first time, and now it is said that the University dormitories and Memorial Hall are to be assessed. If this question should be raised, it can be settled only by a long and expensive legal contest...
About $200 has already been subscribed mostly by members of the University for the proposed workingmen's reading room on Washington street, Boston. Either this week or next, the committee in charge is to make a canvass of the various buildings. The reading room will probably be opened immediately after the Christmas recess, and the plan now is to have a concert of popular music by the college band on the opening night...
...anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship to supplement the work which the prize funds have hitherto done alone, and it is to be hoped that the experiment will tend to make our best scholarship more truly democratic...
...course nothing but examination and comparison will convince any one that our goods are exactly what we say-combining sound and tasteful material, skilled workmanship, and low price. Mention of some of our prices will indicate that the examination and comparison are well worth making. We make to order good every day suits from $25 to $35. Ready made suits, in many respects quite as good, are sold by us from $13 to $20. We make winter overcoats, of Carr's English Melton, from $28 to $35,50. We sell ready made overcoats, of goods of similar quality...