Word: manner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college in saying that the gospel, as preached to us, is not just what it should be. When we consider that the four years of college life will determine our religious convictions in great part, we think that the subject should be presented to us in the best manner possible, and not in such a way as to drive us to scepticism from sheer indifference. If we are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, we can hardly be expected to develop practical and robust Christianity to help us in our daily life, and not a general shaking...
...Dunbar on "The Reaction in Political Economy," written in his lucid, entertaining style, it shows forcibly the transition stage through which Political Economy is now passing. Mr. Arthur T. Hadley contributes a paper on "Private Monopolies and Public Rights," which treats the subject in a very concise and interesting manner, with particular attention to railroad monopolies. "Silver before Congress in 1886" is the title of an article by Mr. S. Dana Norton. The complicated question is discussed with a simplicity and directness rarely found, when difficult financial problems are set before the general reader. The part of the magazine devoted...
Another case of larceny at the gymnasium has been followed by the apprehension of the supposed thief. There is much severe criticism on the manner in which the gymnasium authorities have acted in this matter...
...meeting in Sever 11 this evening. All who are interested in the study of French literature should make it a point to attend this meeting; for unless sufficient enthusiasm is manifested by the students, it will be impossible to carry out the proposed plan. As a pleasant and profitable manner of studying subjects in French literature and in French history, and of acquiring an ability to converse in French and to readily understand the language when spoken, the proposed society would be invaluable. As we understand it, the society will not confine it self to the consideration of literary topics...
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt among the foot-ball enthusiasts at New Haven at the manner in which they think Yale was treated at the recent inter-collegiate foot-ball convention in New York. The feeling here is that Princeton, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania joined forces and advanced a proposition to the effect that Yale should play Harvard at Cambridge and Princeton at Princeton. They argued that as Harvard had a new and inexperienced team, it was no more than fair that Yale should give them the benefit of playing on their own grounds, and that as Princeton...