Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...becoming more and more important as historical agents. With articles that may become of historic value, however, are mingled many columns of trash that it is far better to overlook than to read. Yet in the long run, there is a great deal in our leading dailies that well repay careful reading, and preservation. At present these articles are buried in the ponderous, rarely opened volumes in the basement of the library. By the plan under consideration, all that is valuable in American and foreign papers can be collected, placed in a compact form, and properly indexed. All must realize...
...students who have remained non-members, necessitates another appeal for support. That only ten men out of several hundred non-members should have considered it worth their while to invest a dollar and a half apiece in an enterprise where the returns will so much more than repay them, shows how indifferent to money matters a large portion of our college community is. Moreover, the promise of the management that, in case this necessary money should be raised, the society placed on a firm basis with an assured capital would, in all probability, become permanent, ought to prompt more...
Members of Political Economy can find in the Sunday Herald a very interesting article on the Silver question. In this article, are accounts of interviews with several prominent authorities on the subject, which would well repay careful reading...
...premium on walking on the grass in wet weather. For years the college press has clamored for the use of the library at night, and one of the professors has shown that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm...
...this room where the photograph albums of past classes are kept, and a glance into them would repay you. But enough. You must go there yourself if you wish to have your curiosity satisfied. There are many gems which time does not permit us to mention...