Word: right
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think we can draw some lessons from our defeat. In the first place, our own interpretation of a question may be right, but it is never safe to be so sure it is right as to leave unanswered or treat as irrelevant arguments based upon a different understanding of the subject. If our men had said, "We do not accept the Yale interpretation; still we will answer our opponents on their own ground," the result might have been different...
...University, made in accordance with the system adopted by Dr. Sargent. The points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings...
FRENCH PLAY.- Every participant in the play be at Brattle Hall at 6.30 p. m. sharp. All ushers be there by 7.00. No tickets will be needed; enter by side door on the right...
Every man to take part in the dress rehearsal of the French play be at Brattle Hall at 6.30 p. m. sharp and enter by side door on the right. W. H. Rand, C. L. Smith and the whole cast be at Notman, the photographer's, at 12 noon...
...needs a large number of public servants to help him in his duties. These he is in duty bound to use solely for that purpose. He has no more right to give a place to a congressman in return for a vote than he has to give him a piano out of the public treasury. Such a policy is dangerous as well as odious. If he confines his influence on legislation to its proper sphere he can lead the people but he can never drive them. Corrupt conditions of spoils may seem for a time to cause prosperity...