Word: roote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper money contribute to the people's good?" an affirmative answer was given in 1728. In 1784 a like answer was given to the question, "Is the constant depreciation of paper money most disastrous to commerce?" In 1787 the question had assumed this form, "Is paper money the root of all evils...
...debate of the Harvard Union last evening was fairly well attended in spite of the inclement weather. The disputants of the evening, Messrs. Root and Currier and Messrs. Coffin and Rich for the affirmative and negative acquitted themselves well and were supported by several speakers from the floor...
...Harvard Union will tonight debate the question "That the United States should place greater restrictions on immigration from Europe." Principal disputants, for the affirmative, Messrs. Root, '85 and W. L. Currier, '87; for the negative, Messrs. Coffin, '85, and Rich...
...additions are sung year after year, and although now and then complaints are heard, nothing of importance has yet been done. Our own glee club started a laudable practice in its last concert in particular by rendering several new songs, and it is right here that we find the root of the whole question. It certainly must be through the medium of the glee clubs that any change can be made, and it seems to us as if the clubs have it in their power to make this change from old to new songs if they choose. Beyond doubt...
...things; the law of light, of seeing things as they are. Even in the natural sciences, where the Greeks had not time and means adequately to apply this instinct, and where we have gone a great deal further than they did, it is this instinct which is the root of the whole matter and the ground of all our success; and this instinct the world has mainly learnt of the Greeks, inasmuch as they are humanity's most signal manifestations of it. Greek art, again, Greek beauty, have their root in the same impulse to see things as they really...