Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pretty fair man on the whole. By an injudicious use of beneficial endowments you may do a fundamental injury to the character." The clerical profession was instanced as a case where excessive endowments had worked injury. "What an individual or what a community may best do for the superior education of this country is to create a high type of it. It is not news to you, gentlemen, that there is not now one single adequate American university. We know that our beloved institution has made progress, great progress, during the last fifteen years, but still she is far from...
Judge Ingraham, in the New York Superior Court yesterday afternoon denied the application by Salmi Morse for a mandamus to compel Mayor Edson to grant him a license to produce the Passion Play...
...seven and one-half to thirty per cent. On cotton and woollen goods a duty of twenty-five per cent. was laid, designedly a protective duty, but intended to be only temporary. This tariff was the most scientifically arranged of any of the tariffs of the country, being much superior in that respect to our present tariff. The highest duties were laid on luxuries; carriages, for instance, it is curious to notice, bore a duty of thirty per cent., showing how these vehicles were then regarded by the people. The tariff of 1816 had little popular sentiment behind...
...since he entered upon his office, and called attention to the fact that there had been no addition to the mental, moral and political sciences. "It would be a great stroke of wisdom," he said, "for the friends of the college to establish a School of Philosophy equal or superior to any in the country...
...copy of "Progress and Poverty," by Henry George, published in the Lovell's Library Series. For all students in Political Economy this book is full of interest, and the edition mentioned, printed as it is in large, clear type, and being of the ordinary convenient book size, is far superior to the other cheap "libraries." The price is twenty cents...