Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...manner of an informal talk than in that of a lecture. Everyone of us has heard so much of late as to whether our vote should be cast strictly according to party principles or according to our conscience, that Mr. Cable's thoughts on the subject cannot but prove interesting, Mr. Cable is by no means a stranger to Harvard students, and he will doubtless receive the warm welcome which...
...Government management would prove demoralizing. (a) To economical appropriations: Edinburgh Rev. 143, pp. 177 et seq. (b) To our civil service.- Hadley; Wells, p. 56. (c) To our politics.- Wells, pp. 58. 61; Hadley...
...unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless. It is not worth while to attempt simple amusement, for the amount of sin or drunkenness is not decreased by it. Relations however, with the more intelligent and prosperous often prove of real benefit. There are many work men ambitious to study, and a few men could do much for these by giving the results, for a few evenings a week, of their training. There is much that students could do. The members of the Eight-hour League, for instance, in Boston...
...established a chair of journalism, and the success of the move will undoubtedly be watched with interest by other colleges which are on the verge of following Cornell's example. We have no hesitancy in pronouncing the success of the plan if tried here, but time alone can prove with certainty the advantages of such a policy...
...fill a fair-sized quarterly. The privilege, too, of having their work published would tend to increase the care already taken by the members of advanced courses in preparing their papers. The thought of these men, though it may be at times a little immature, were it published would prove of value as well as of interest both to the college at large and to the public. The publication of such a quarterly as that just started at Princeton, though no easy task, would be another justification of Harvard's password, "progress...