Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ireland's hatred. (b) Home Rule is desirable for Ireland's sake. (1) It would give greter opportunity for needful legislation. (2) An Irish legislature would be better informed on Irish needs, and more sympathetic in the treatment of them. (3) Law would be more respected. (4) Responsibility would sober the Irish...
...that it presents well and clearly, though at somewhat tedious length, a great though inevitable danger into which we have come through the tremendous growth of the University in late years, that danger being that as our numbers increase we gradually lose that flue "Harvard spirit" of quiet and sober gentlemanliness for which Harvard men have always been noted. "My Dryad" is a short poem by P. H. Savage. It is not especially good. A long and cleverly managed article is J. R. Oliver's study of Maurice Maetterlink, a young Belgian writer, The article is abundantly stocked with quotations...
...characteristic to them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring +++ continue in some of them. The University of Chicago will undoubtedly draw its numbers more and more...
...collection contains five documents; 1 Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures, 1790, "the strongest presentation of the case for protection which has been made by any American statesman;" 2. Gallatin's Memorial of the Free Trade Convention, 1832, a sober and stately public document, and in manner and matter a model of what a discussion of the tariff question should be; 3. Walker's Treasury Report of 1845, which after giving the figures of the Treasury, discusses the tariff and presents the case against protection; 4 and 5. Speeches on the tariff in the House of Representatives...
Although there is much in these arguments which would not strictly apply to the altered conditions of today, yet the documents are valuable to show the historical growth of the tariff question, and what is of even more service, they represent the opinions of sober, hard thinking statesmen, who outside the pale of polities, were working for the best economic interests of the nation...