Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...convenience sake a table was put on the blackbord showing the condition of the currency last month. (N. B. The figures given represent millions of dollars. Subsidiary coins, i.e., under one dollar, are not taken into account.) Legal tender notes are of two kinds: (a) U. S. Notes, commonly known as "greenbacks," 346.7; (b) Treasury Notes...
...consideration of first importance is that if our athletics are to be kept clear of excess and corruption they have got to be animated by the love of sport for its own sake. The desire for victory and the "honor" of a college should and may be a pure motive, but it is safe to say that nine tenths of the corruption in college athletics today is due to the domination of this motive, in a perverted form, over the pure love of sport. When, furthermore, the latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body...
...members of the University once more of the concert of the musical clubs in Sanders Theatre this evening. This concert is one of only two opportunities in the course of the year for these clubs to be heard in Cambridge and both for the music itself and for the sake of keeping up interest in one of the best things that there is in student life, every member of the University who is able to go to the concert should be there tonight...
...instruction in the schools for some time to come, however, and would supply the deficiency by more personal contact between the landed families of high standing and the peasants who live around them. In this way, M. de Mauny-Talvande thinks, a knowledge of moral principles for their own sake would be instilled into the minds of the peasants...
...Corporation's utilitarian view of architecture. On his own responsibility "Graduate" satirizes the diplomacy of intercollegiate sport, especially with relation to a certain affair between colleges "A" and "B." He closes with "two maxims, long held as truths among antediluvians: 'Do not whitewash ! Cultivate sport for the sake of sport, and for nothing else...