Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty-two candidates recently examined for entrance to West Point only nine were accepted as physically sound...
...seems to us that the point which our correspondent makes in his communication is a good one. Several times complaints have been published in our columns on the subject, but apparently our words of wisdom have fallen on barren ground. There is no reason why our debates should not attain nearly as high a standard as those of the great debating clubs at Princeton, for instance, yet there usually seems to be but little effort on the part of five-minute speakers to do more than merely exercise their voices for the benefit of nobody. We trust that the eyes...
...board, although but $4.50 a week is far superior to that of Memorial Hall, both in point of quality of food and in service; and this, in spite of the fact that the number of boarders is little more than a hundred. Cigars and cigarettes appear on the order list; and each man is allowed to have his own beer...
...contract system brings the competition of convict labor with outside industries to a maximum point of severity.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor...
...lies in the toleration of an unwise state of college opinion. What the Advocate thinks we do not know, but it seems likely that it must believe as we do in the matter, since the root of our misfortunes is admitted generally to be this same false and evil point of view. We look forward with interest to the next number of the Advocate...