Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only athletic organization to ask for it, we expect from Ninety-seven a handsome response. We hope this year to see no frantic appeals for more money at the last moment; it is an unpleasant sort of event and there does not seem to be any good reason now why it should occur...
...Caliph can not decide, and so accepts both. The astronomer and captain of the guard receive the prize. But in attempting to escape, the queen and soubrette disclose their identity. All the conspirators are captured and sentenced to be executed but are saved at the last moment by reason of a promise which the caliph has made to the soubrette...
...time of the higher Renaissance in Florence, he said, was the sixteenth century. This was a period in which all Italy was undergoing a great change. For the first time since the fall of Rome Italians were beginning to feel an interest in science and philosophy, to look to reason rather than to religion for explanation and for truth. Still the age was in a way a religious age, though the religion was of the intellect rather than of the heart. But while the character of the race was rising from an intellectual point of view it was deteriorating...
...character, about which we have been asked to speak. It is with reference to the crews running upon North avenue. There is a tendency for the men to be careless about ordinary pedestrians, and to come to feel that they themselves have the right of way. There is some reason for this; not a few Cambridge people are so lenient in their admiration for youthful strength and dash, that they do not mind scurrying to one side of the walk, and, in muddy weather, of being generally bespattered. But for every one who does not object to this sort...
...establishing a sympathetic understanding between the different sorts of men in the class. Of course the dinner will have no such influence unless a very large proportion of the members participate. The occasion is sure to be entertaining, the cost is small, and there is no reason why nearly every man in the class should not attend. Support will, unquestionably, make the dinner a success, and, particularly, prompt support. Let no man postpone signing the blue-book at Leavitt's; if only a large number of men sign at once, a very wide interest will be awakened by this very...