Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Captain of the Holyoke boat-club has requested us to state that all persons who wish to join the club must send in their money to the Treasurer before the end of January, 1876. A place will be reserved for any one who sends his name to the Secretary before that time, but it is desired that the money should be paid as soon as possible. No one will be able to join the club after February...
...think otherwise. Are the traditions of Class Day to go for nothing? Will not tradition, whose influence is often stronger than a state of disgraceful facts, serve us here...
...disadvantage of the plan is the difficulty of carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made, it would be done at the expense of the city of Cambridge or of the State, according as one or the other has control of the bridges. Neither would have any advantage in making the change, and unless a very strong petition could be presented to the proper authorities it would be useless to attempt to induce them to do anything about it. Nevertheless, the construction...
...extreme rapidity with which absences sum up when there is a confirmed habit of cutting uninteresting recitations on small provocation, and yet, probably, these swell the black list to a large extent. The apparent fallacy in the position is the exhorting of students to keep up an artificial state of attendance on recitations, while the experiment looks to ascertain the real disposition of students with regard to the matter. This, however, disappears when we remember that the test which the authorities are agreed to apply is an arbitrary and perhaps inadequate one, namely, the number of absences in the course...
...experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon the working of this system, which, like every other yet proposed, is vitiated by the artificial division of classes by society lines. The experiment, however, is to be judged in the light of former elections and in view of the fundamental principles of human nature...