Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...deep thinker, but is rather content to repeat what has been said before, or to wander off into anecdotes and instances, very interesting in themselves, but not good as arguments. We would gladly forgive a few more errors, or arguments which would provoke opposition, for the sake of greater originality. It is but fair to say that the book is worth reading, if only for the information which it furnishes upon many subjects which almost all Americans are interested in, though their knowledge of them may be somewhat confused, such as the peculiar characteristics of the Oxford and Cambridge universities...
...doctrinal views of the recent candidate for the bishopric of Massachusetts, and we need not re-echo their hasty judgments on the soundness of those views. Let us not admit religious controversy into the colums of our College papers; or, if we choose to do so, for the sake of truth let no one write an article on a religious or controversial subject without an extended course of reading on both sides of the question which he purposes to handle. Let us at least take this precaution against the increase among us of the shallower and more flippant kind...
...injury, it might be imagined that they are a source of revenue to the College. It is gratifying to those who occupy rooms in the older buildings to know who have previously held them; a parchment transmittendum forms a convenient method of ascertaining this. I hope for the sake of those who are interested in such things that their future destruction will cease...
...sake of extorting surplus cash
...whose present literary efforts are confined to our college journals. Upon the hypothesis, then, that Harvard men are shrewd enough to distinguish a good joke from a bad one, and too refined to relish vulgarity, the conclusion is this, that he cannot be a popular writer who, for the sake of a joke, oversteps the bounds of good taste...