Word: soled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Newspapers are conducted too much as if they were mere money-making ventures. There are some occupations which have so important an effect on the general prosperity that they cannot be carried on, with safety to the community, as if their sole object was to make money...
...After the war, the great colleges advanced with a step which kept pace with the highest progress of the age. Yale's new president. with his youth, experience, administrative talent and popularity, became the responsible manager of all departments and the sole administrator of the young republic...
...committee are under great obligations to Professor Ware. He has prepared its construction without charge. The sole responsibility for a trust of unusual difficulty has rested upon him. He has successfully overcome all obstacles as they have arisen, and has substantially lessened the cost of the building by enlisting the interest of many American manufacturers who have supplied material. No one else is so well prepared to speak about the building, and at my request he has prepared the following account, which he permits the committee to make a part of this report...
...lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books, the college authorities have neglected doing anything toward lighting the library during the night. The argument of fire might have had some force during the days when gas was the sole means of illuminating public buildings, but since the introduction of electricity, which has now become superior to gas, the argument falls to the ground. As the case stands now, the only time a student can use the reference books in the library is in the morning, when his hours...
...fall of 1868, the Everett Athenaeum, a sophomore society, was formed by certain members of '71. For some years the Institute has been the sole society for sophomores, and many men had necessarily no society. The founders of the Everett Athenaeum were men of literary tastes, and it was due to their efforts that the society assumed such a high literary standard. According to the constitution, a board of three editors were to be appointed, whose duty it was to present alternately, at intervals of two weeks, a paper not to exceed thirty minutes in length. At every meeting...