Word: proved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rule, examinations are not regarded by the outside world as occasions on which a display of humor may be expected. But if exceptions prove the rule, then may examinations claim to afford a very rich fund of ludicrous incidents. One of the frequent causes of humor at examinations is of course the ignorance of candidates. A person was once asked the question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account...
...money raised for bills payable. This leaves room for the conclusion that the cost for January and December was $4.28 while the cost for January was more than that - December, that is to say, may have cost less than $4.28. I say "leaves room." It does not prove it, for the reason that $4.46 was the price charged on the first term bill - 18 cents, that is, more than $4.28. To settle the question exactly is not so easy as might appear, as will be seen by what I shall show with regard to the term bill now just...
...recent movement for the enlargement of the department in instruction, but the tendency has been, as at most colleges, to instill into students certain abstract principles of free trade on which are based opinions that show little acquaintance with the practical workings of our national institutions and prove equally intolerant with those of the extreme protectionists. As one of the Cooper Institute speakers says, "they do this without reflecting that those theories are constructed from a British standpoint." And, too, "they assume that political economy is an exact science, applying alike to all countries and situations; when, as a matter...
...lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson, which will be given this evening under the auspices of the Finance Club, should be largely attended. The novelty as well as the importance of the subject will attract attention. The lecture will be illustrated by diagrams, and will unquestionably prove as interesting as the lectures Mr. Atkinson has favored us with in past years...
...college league teams with some success, we do not expect that much importance will be attached to our athletic enterprises. It seems probable, however, that the points of difference in student customs between a large Western university like Michigan and a large Eastern one like Harvard would prove entertaining to the readers of the HERALD...