Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...What rhetorical ends are sometimes sought by the absence of perspicuity? Illustrate. What is pointed out by Kant as the paralogism of Rational Psychology? Would your ideas on this point have been clearer at the beginning of the paper...
Ninevah in the height of her power, was the center of the commercial world; people from all parts of the world congregated there and left the point of their civilization on the art of Assyria, to a very slight extent, to be sure; still, the effect is perceptable...
...salient point in the president's report which appears to day, is the evidence afforded of Harvard's steady advancement in size and matter of advantages. Not a year passes in which some new building, some new department of learning or added opportunity for study does not testify to the vitality and growth of the college. The past year is not wanting in such additions. New and enlarged courses have been added to the curriculum of the law and medical schools; the new divinity hall and library is fast approaching completion; the courses in the college proper have been enlarged...
...strong batter, and last season was the best base runner in the college association. He is a swift and accurate thrower, but he is not quite sure on grounders. Coolidge and Lord have played on their class team for three years. Batting has always been their weakest point, but in this they both improved greatly last year. Holden was substitute last year. He is a hard worker, a good base runner, and a valuable all-round player. Gallivan has played on his class team for two years. His fielding is fair, and last year he led the batting...
...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...