Word: proven
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fewer the saloons the less the political power: No. Am. vol. 144. p. 500. - (d) It has all the good features of prohibition without menacing personal rights: And Rev.IX. 25-26; Nation XXXVI. 273. - (e) Tends to prevent use of spirits: No. Am. vol. 144, p. 500. - (f) Has proven its value: Forum iii, 152. - (g) Can be enforced: Forum ii, 410 - (h). The argument that high licence should be defeated because it indefinitely postpones prohibition is an admission of the efficacy of the proposed legislation: No. Am. CXLIV...
With Class Day evening when it will sing in the yard, the university glee club ends another busy and prosperous year. The idea of a Christmas trip, which has been in more or less of an experimental stage till this year, has been proven conclusively a source of benefit and pleasure to all concerned and it bids fair to become a fixture in the yearly programme of the club...
...gratifying to learn that the loan-furniture system has proven so successful this year that the committee which has it in charge feels encouraged to try to work on a larger scale next year. Any scheme of this kind which reduces in a legitimate way the necessary expenses of the man who desires to go through college as economically as possible deserves to be encouraged. We hope that the circular issued by the committee to seniors, to which attention is called on the first page, will meet with a considerable response. Many men are here afforded an opportunity to help...
...strength and weight of the contestants. Strange as it might seem to the younger men, this fact was quite a revelation to some of the older men who had got all their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that they had proven the sport to be worthy of the best efforts of gentlemen. But, he added "one swallow does not make a summer," and he hoped that the hard work and enthusiasm which had won the victory were but an example to urge future generations of students to earn success by the same means...
Next week will close the long and pleasant engagement at the Tremont Theatre of Miss Rosina Vokes and her capable company. This engagement has been the most successful the has played in Boston. It has been signalized by the production of two new plays which have proven of exceptional merit. Her departure will be a matter of regret to all lovers of the genial, bright and wholesome in stage offerings. During next week Miss Vokes will present two separate triple bills made up from the most interesting of her one-act plays. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the bill will...