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...current number of the Monthly contains the following: "Class Unity," by G. Emerson '08; "The Backsliding of Sister Pettibone," by H. H. Harbour '06; "Love's Laughter," by J. H. Wheelock '08: "My Lady's Minstrel," by H. Hagedorn 07: "The Fourth Wise Man," by R. M. Arkush '07; "Nil Desperandum," by H. A. Bellows '06: "Gower," by C. T. Ryder '06; "An Intemperance Story," by J. L. Price '07; Editorials: Record: Book Notices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contents of Current Monthly | 10/31/1905 | See Source »

...action has tended to decrease rather than increase the net reward of their labor: Report Mass. R. R. Commission for 1887 on B. and M. strike; daily papers on C., B. and Q. strike (March-April, 1888), especially Boston Herald, March 18, 1888; (b) its educational effect is nil; (c) it incites to violence: Report of Sec. of State of Penn., on the riot of 1877; Boston Globe for March 30, 31; Post, April 3; Herald, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English VI. | 4/24/1888 | See Source »

...management of the boat club. Before we withdraw this assertion, we want to see good reasons given why the janitor should receive a salary of this amount during those months of the year in which there is not a boating man in Cambridge and his labor consequently amounts to nil or the next thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1888 | See Source »

...know, perhaps, that the gilded cross over the entrance to the library is a trophy of the capture of Louisburg by the New England troops in 1744. It was taken from a French church, and its present location is the more appropriate, since the motto of Colonial troops was: "Nil desperandum Christo duce," and that of the college is "Christo et Ecclesiau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 5/5/1887 | See Source »

...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1887 | See Source »

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