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Word: paid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long time no attention was paid to exterior things, to landscapes for instance. Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand were the first to describe landscapes. Then writers and painters came to be allied. Diderot wrote his "Salons"; literature began to borrow some of the methods of art. Changes in the life of races began to be the subject of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST LECTURE OF M. DOUMIC | 3/2/1898 | See Source »

...year by a member of one class who published either book to a member of the follwing class. The transfer was made upon the payment to the former student who had been the publisher during his Senior year of an amount equal to that which he himself had paid. In this way one member of each class was enabled to pay a large part of his expenses for one college year by publishing the "Portfolio" and another man was enabled to do the same by getting out the "Index...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1898 | See Source »

...College, thus depriving another man of the opportunity of paying for the greater part of a year's education. Not satisfed with this he selfishly copyrighted both books, refused to hand down the copyrights; but retaining them, annually rented out the books so that each year there was paid to him for the privilege of publishing each book several hundred dollars, which decreased the earning of the man who really did the work. It was a trick of the most selfish nature-one which it is hard to imagine would be perpetrated by any Harvard man who had known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1898 | See Source »

...will realize that there is a possibility of affording some man a chance to earn his way by publishing the book. The Photographic Committee of the class of Ninety-eight has put an end to the same practice of renting the "Portfolio." Though the same rental is still paid the benefit now goes to the class and not to an unscrupulous person who had no right to receive such profit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1898 | See Source »

...most important amendment, that relating to the training tables, provides that every athlete shall pay a certain part of his board expenses; the same rate which he has paid before being taken to the table. This is the rule by which Harvard training tables have always been regulated, and it is proposed to make it general for the purpose of decreasing the possibility of securing good athletes by offering them their expenses at the training tables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMENDMENTS. | 2/7/1898 | See Source »

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