Word: ownly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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9. It would not interfere with private water rights, for the government would own the streams. The riparian doctrine is unsuited to the West.- Powell's Arid Regions of the West, pp. 40-43.
A great many lists have been recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read...
Each body, then, must make out his own list as he goes. But at the outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In...
General Armstrong will address a meeting to be held on Friday, November 30, at 8 o'clock p. m,, in the Shepard Memorial Chapel. General Armstrong and Professor Peabody have planned this meeting for a long time, and it is to be regretted that the time of the year is...
It is now definitely settled that there will be no Yale-Harvard foot-ball game this season. Yale has refused to accept any proposition made by our management in regard to the regular championship game, insisting that Harvard should play on the polo grounds on Thanksgiving day, even though she...