Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Encyclopedia, p. 232; Report of Senate Committee on Coinage, 51 Cong., 2nd Session, 1891; F. W. Taussig, the Working of the New Silver Act, in Forum, Oct. 1891, F. W. Taussig, the Working of the New Silver Act, in Forum, Oct. 1890, Forum, March, 1891; Silver as a Circulating medium, Forum, Nineteenth Century, vol. 28, p. 309; Nation, 1890, passim...
...theme the description of two types of character which we know to exist at Harvard and with which we feel a sympathy-the easy-going idler with a kind heart and good instincts, and the hard-working grind with high aims and ambitions. The "grind's" mother forms the medium through which good is accomplished for both, and the slight dash of pathos at the end only strengthens a story which is easily and simply told...
...Kenneth Brown is unique, to say the least. It is a fantastic sketch of physiology class of ghouls, the "limp one" being what Is familiarly known in medical parlance as a stiff." A number of "little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams...
...fairly well, but made one tremendously wild and disastrous throw to second base, besides showing poor judgment at times in throwing to the other bases. At second Dean fumbled one grounder and then threw the ball far out of Trafford's reach. The rest of Harvard's play was medium...
...graduates, she will prosper. So plain has this proved in the educational interests of the University, that to our athletic interests as well, those in charge of our athletics have thought to bring to bear the power and influence of our graduates. They have gained their help through the medium of the Graduate Advisory Committees; and Harvard can attribute much to her recent athletic awakening of the energy of the men who make up these committees. We have had occasion of late frequently to speak of the important factor which these committees have become in the successful administration...