Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...learn to cope with such men as these, they will out-play Princeton. As for the disgrace of being beaten by these local clubs, the college is concerned only about winning the college championship from Princeton, and will not mind a few defeats like Saturday's, endured for the sake of getting practice...
Philip, Duke of Bergundy, the stuff that bank-cashiers are made of ; he gives up his country for the sake of filthy lucre, H. K. Swinscoe...
...Royce abounds in philosophle smartness of this sort, and he has the junior modern's faith in no faith. * * * * Practically, the whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of the book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science...
...quite closely. This, I am compelled to say, I do not see how the Cornell students can very well do. The rules of Congress are designed to check debate; those of the House of Commons to facilitate it. But apart from this, the Cornell men cannot for simplicity's sake carry to its full application the distinctive feature of the American Congress, the standing committee system. Our new plan works well; men always come to debate on the occasion of a ministerial crisis, while mere abstract interest in the question under discussion has been found generally unable to move them...
...came down as an indebtedness from the year before. Then, too, the money paid out by the Boat Club, is largely in excess of its actual expenditures. To explain this, it is necessary to speak briefly of the manner of keeping the accounts of the Boat Club. For the sake of simplicity, the annual report of the treasurer is a statement of all the money handed in to, and paid by, the Boat Club. In many of its money transactions, the Boat Club simply acts as an agent for others. For instance, when the crew goes to a training table...