Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the artery bringing the blood from the right side of the heart breaks up. So the blood flowing through them is exposed to the air on both sides. In early life the lungs have a rose color; but as a person grows older, a quantity of black looking matter is found scattered through them, and sometimes forming streaks in the surface. This is shown to be corbon, and has been inhaled from time to time. Inhaling certain kinds of dust will give pulmonary consumption...
...more important point to make clear to your readers is that no matter what the special rules of each college may be, every student must pass three examinations by the university examiners, before obtaining the ordinary B. A. degree; and the first of these viz. "Responsions" has to be passed within the first two terms of residence, and is practically an entrance examination of a very respectable character, to which all students are subject...
...regular professions, nor enter business, but intends to pursue a specialty which affords absolutely no chance for material gain. The cry of "dillettanteism" immediately arises. It cannot be denied that "dillettanteism" is becoming a very popular euphemism for doing absolutely nothing in life. But it is a simple matter to point out that a man who is well up in literary work can readily bring honor to the name of "dilettante...
...Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course in in the Common Law, it is unnecessary to speak. The CRIMSON editorially, and through communications this year as well as last year has made it clear to the faculty that the course was demanded by a large number of students...
...great fear is that the pursuit they have chosen will in the future prove "uncongenial." But it is necessarily "uncongenial" sometimes to do the right thing in any sort of action, and it may unhappily be so in this case. The question that should be asked in deciding this matter is not "What should I like to do?" but "What ought I to do?" In answering this question we have but to glance at our degrees of success in the different things we have undertaken in our lives, and a correct conclusion is pretty sure to be reached. Even...