Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While it may be true that the writers of today are not college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend...
...part of the statement of Secretary J. B. Warner '69, and the tables according to decades follow...
...next volume in Macmillan's Series of Economic Classes will be a translation of Turgot's "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches" (1770), by the editor of the series, Professor W. J. Ashley, of Harvard. This book is a brief and lucid statement of the doctrines of those writers who are regarded the creators of modern political economy. Hitherto it has been accessible only in a translation of 1793 which has been discovered to be inaccurate...
...graduates. In order to carry on this "campaign of education" as Mr. Adams calls it in his letter, the Undergraduate Committee is preparing a pamphlet for distribution. This pamphlet will contain much of the undergraduate correspondence on the subject, and an account of the mass meeting, together with a statement, as detailed as possible, of the expenses which must be met for the erection of the building, and for its maintenance. It is probable also that some official statements will be embodied showing the support of the University authorities...
...days the Graduate Committee will make a statement in regard to the steps they have already taken in the club propaganda, and what they consider most advisable in the future...