Word: proves
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...word of advice from President Eliot on enlisting has been generally desired ever since the outbreak of hostilities, and now that a large increase in the army is likely to prove necessary, comes most opportunely. Men are much better able today than a month ago, to take a cool survey of the situation, appreciate that the best of patriotism is not always blind action, and to decide definitely where their duties...
...courses in the Economics Department offered by Dr. Cunningham of Trinity College, Cambridge, on "Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects," and the "Industrial Revolution in England." They will cause many Seniors to wish more than ever that they were members of the Junior class, and no doubt will prove an additional temptation to many for a year in the Graduate School...
...ranks of the University Debating Club. Secondly, English 30 provides about as much debating for forty Juniors as they care to carry. Thus the number of men who could take an active interest in a Junior Club is not large, and while a successful 1900 Class Club would doubtless prove a valuable addition to Harvard debating, a poorly supported organization in setting but a weak example to a Sophomore Club which would otherwise have everything in its favor, might do much more harm than good...
...Reeves who opened the rebuttal for the negative said in substance: The affidavits of individual paupers have little force. To administer the immigration laws on the Canadian line would require that it be on almost a war footing. The affirmative must prove that there exists a class which must be kept out and that any restrictions which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would...
...interest but of special significance to undergraduates. Evidently, in arranging for the lectures, the Corporation have had the aim of assisting those who contemplate enlistment to take the step with their eyes open, and from the character of the lectures we feel able to predict that the course will prove an able exposition of service conditions both past and present. The course is well calculated to be useful, and, we are confident, will meet with due appreciation...