Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truth improvements tend to decrease rather than to increase rent. Improvements in transportation obviously decrease rent, by bringing new lands into cultivation, or rendering old lands more accessible. Improvements in agriculture have the same effect. Mr. George, therefore, has neither fact nor argument to uphold...
...strong team and will prove a very dangerous adversary, while the University of Pennsylvania presents almost as strong an eleven as America can show. Going to Philadelphia, the home of American cricket, our eleven can hardly hope for much success, though the practice it will get will tend to very good results in the future...
...reasons which induced them to take such a position, have been the occasion of much indignation and complaint throughout the college. If the faculty were influenced largely by the belief that the fence would be objectionable to the majority of the students, the opinions thus far expressed must tend to shake their confidence in the soundness of the conclusion reached by them. We have yet to hear of any expression of opinion from the college which is favorable to the action of the faculty. We hope that this fact will be well considered by the faculty and that they will...
...HARVARD HERALD : The Yale News entirely misunderstands Harvard's position on the subject of playing with professional ball nines. It says editorially : "The discussion of the whole question of college athletics, which the action of Princeton-Harvard has raised, has proved too clearly the fatuity of any regulations which tend to suppress them to permit such regulations to be long in operation." It is not a fact that the Harvard or Princeton faculties have endeavored to suppress athletics at their respective colleges. What they did try to do was to endeavor to draw a line between gentlemen who play base...
...hereditary enemies is lost sight of, and both the quantity and the quality of the work show the advantages of harmony and enthusiasm. There are no laggards to hold back the rest, while the very men whose lack of comprehension of a subject would under the required system, tend to laziness and failure are often enthusiastic and successful students in the department where their talents take them. Another great advantage is that useless courses or incompetent instructors are left in solitary state. In this way the instruction of the college regulates itself. A failure which might only be suspected under...