Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee has no axes to grind, it has not been run in the interest either of Mr. Watson or of Mr. Bancroft. There is no truth whatever in the statement that the committee has on several occasions interfered with the affairs of the boat club, with disastrous results to the success of the crew...
From the Yale News we learn that the enthusiastic supporters of the blue have organized a club for polo playing on roller skates. Coupled with this report comes the alarming statement that this new departure is made with a view of bringing one more championship to New Haven, for we are informed that a strong team has already been put in training, and that a challenge has been sent to the Harvard Polo Club. But this time, though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must...
...first of the four lectures to be delivered on Protective Tariffs by Prof. Robt. E. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania was very fully attended. The lecture was a statement of certain preliminary matters on the subject of the tariff. The subsequent lectures will be devoted to a general discussion of protection, its effect upon labor, and a refutation of arguments commonly advanced against a protective tariff. The lecturer began by stating certain principles to which all economists agreed, love of our country before all others, the least interference of government consistent with our general welfare, and the need...
...time and care given to the important study of English at most of the so-called universities and colleges of the north is well shown in a letter to the current Nation, in which the writer gives a statement of the condition of the English department in southern colleges, To us the time and money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English...
Although this statement may savor a little of the enthusiast, it is evident that the study of English has secured a much firmer foot hold among the southern people than was formerly the case...