Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Finally we come to one of the main differences between Yale and Harvard. Yale cares for the individual, Harvard for the institution. Yale tries to develope a man's character and we have an excellent and definite statement of what that character should be. Yale tries to give men to the world. Harvard tries to give an institution to men to give them a place where they can develop themselves and work out their own character. Harvard's principle recognizes more fully the differences in men. It has far larger possibilities and is based on a great confidence in human...
...that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring classes in England have increased 200 per cent. during the last fifty years. The gains of capital have been augmented by only 15 per cent. during the same period. Mr. Edward Atkinson is authority for the statement that average wages in the United States have increased one third since...
...Thames course as a course for three boats. Upon Yale's experience of last year I intended merely to cite this as an example of what at any time might be repeated. The ground for my belief in the unsuitability of the Thames course for three boats, is the statement to that effect that I heard last year from many skilled oarsmen. The CRIMSON acknowledges the unfitness in an editorial of Nov. 17, 1886 - "Another objection is that three eights cannot race on the Thames course with equal conditions to each. Anyone who has rowed on the river cannot fail...
Finally in all seriousness, the annoyance caused by the amount of random conversation in English A., despite the instructor's gentle remonstrance, is sufficient to warrant an open statement of it and an appeal to the CRIMSON to rebuke the talkers...
...prices in many things are the same as in other stores. They forget that it is the existence of the Co-operative Society that keeps the Cambridge tradesmen within bounds. If the Society for any reason should ever be forced to close its store, the truth of this statement would speedily be made manirest...