Word: proof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
...give no comprehensive summary such as the articles spoken of furnish; but we present what seem to us a few of the chief points on either side. Those who urge the new plan must assume the burden of proof. They say: first, that the present age of entrance into college is too high; second, that the growth in our standards and efficiency and the contemporary rise of the graduate school have been so great as to make the A. B. degree no longer the limit of general culture; third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America...
...Harvard feeling was aroused and kept alive during the whole evening by rounds of cheers and by the regulation Harvard songs which were interspersed among the courses of the dinner and the speeches afterward. The Harvard Club of New York has now about six hundred members and although no proof was needed to show that it was in a most flourishing condition, yet the enthusiasm exhibited at this dinner brought the loyalty of the New York alumni more fully to light not only to themselves but to Harvard men all over the country...
...these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps of noted enemies attached; also there are arrows associated with mystic ceremonies and the sacred pipe of the tribe. The fact that Miss Fletcher has been able to obtain these trophies from the Indians is a good proof of the work of civilization she has been doing among them...
...operative Society has shown itself to be a necessity. The last report is ample proof of this. We cannot find anything to complain of in the condition of the society at present; it is on a firm financial basis, and carried on a larger scale than any other college co-operative institution. The most satisfactory feature of the society is that it does accomplish its purpose and furnishes the college a long list of the most necessary articles at a very much reduced price. If the present management keeps up the methods now employed, we look forward to a long...