Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eating human corpses Slavery in its worst forms is prevalent all over the country. The masters have entire control over their slaves and often kill a dozen or more as a mere display of wealth. The condition of the women is so wretched that babies are often killed rather than allowed to grow up to misery...
...because: (a) it is excessive.- D. A. Wells, Report on Sugar Industries; (b) a reduction would greatly reduce the price of sugar; (c) the duty is more of the nature of a revenue tax than a protective tariff.- Thompson's Protection to Home Industries, p. 105; (d) it retards, rather than advances, the production of domestic cane sugar.- Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889. D. 934 (e) a reduction would decrease the present surplus.- Public Opinion, July...
...days ago by the executive committee of the Tennis Association, for the reservation of four courts on Jarvis field to be used by the sixteen best players of the college in a league match, deserves to be adopted. While this plan would subtract from general use a rather large proportion of the good courts, the loss would be more than counterbalanced by the advantages gained, and especially the stimulus to better play. It will become an object not only to win future tournaments, but to make a creditable showing in them; and thus many of the less prominent players will...
...were in very poor condition and made ground work almost impossible. Three nets were up, and Captain Willard kept the men busy with batting and fielding. Shroll '89, Downer '89, Grant '92, Viles '92 and Churchhill '92, pitched alternately, and although they pitched straight balls only, the batting was rather weak. The majority of the candidates have already played either on the 'Varsity or on the various class nines. Willard (captain), L. S. Henshaw '89, Linn '90, and Mumford '90, have played on the 'Varsity; Downer '79 Corning '91, Dean, '91. Coman '90, McKean '90, Crosby '91, Cummings '91, Babbitt...
...unintermitted intercourse with students." If such has been the effect on the professor of closer contact with the student, it is to be regretted; it certainly destroys the theory which demands that closer contact, for the basal principle of the theory is that the closer intercourse will strengthen, rather than exhaust, both the instructor and the instructed...