Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study, and the degree of master of arts upon graduates of three year's standing. The examination for degrees were frequent and severe, especially just before commencement. Good conduct as well as scholarship was essential in order to obtain a degree. "Every scholar that giveth up in writing a system or synopsis or some of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy; and is ready to defend his theses or positions; withal, skilled in the originals as above said and of godly life, is fit to be dignified with his second degree...
Last Monday the Boston aldermen gave the West End Street Railway Company a hearing concerning the cable system that they propose to introduce in Boston and vicinity. Many strong arguments were presented in favor of the system, and but little opposition encountered. The various advantages of the cable over the electric and elevated systems were shown. The cable system can be operated at all seasons of the year, while the electric will not work in winter; the elevated system, by darkening the streets and stores in addition to making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real...
...customs duty, besides advancing and protecting our own industrial interests, is the most economical and the least burdensome system of taxation: George F. Edmunds, in Harper's Magazine, Feb., 1888; Western View of the Tariff, Forum, Dec., 1887; Two Messages, N. Am. Review...
...those who heard them, and it must be regretted that every man in college was not within reach of the speaker's voice. It is the plain truth that a grave responsibility rests upon the students of Harvard; upon every freshman as well as upon every senior. The present system of prayers was the result of a movement among the students, and with the students alone rests the question of success or failure. The members of the lower classes may not feel the weight of the responsibility as much as do the members of the higher class; but they must...
...students present at the Union debate last night. The question, "Resolved that the best interests of the United States demand the annexation of Canada," was opened on the affirmative by W. Coulson, S. S. He briefly sketched the relations of Canada with England while a colony, under the old system of navigation laws. Then only was Canada a source of prosperity to the mother country; now the dominion has become a heavy burden. Annexation did not mean war by any means, for England would not feel sorry to part with the drain upon her resources. The practical business...