Word: unless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chauncey Depew lately said in one of his witty speeches after a college Alumni dinner, with such an array of studies as Harvard offers the students the elective system becomes a necessity unless the students are to be worked 438 hours a week. The only absolute prescription is, in the freshman year, rhetoric and English composition, German or French, the other being required for admission, and attendance once a week upon lectures in chemistry and physics, and in the remainder of the college course English composition in the form of "themes" and "forensics" only. In addition to these prescribed exercises...
...upon the eve of speaking. Is it any wonder that from such material such results follow? The university has just cause for congratulation that the "dramatic expression" has passed as useless for practical purposes. But that does not aid matters. Men will not spend their time in oratorical drill unless they are compelled to do so by a demand made by the college that public speaking shall in some way be improved. How that end is to be accomplished is questionable. As it now stands the appeal is made to the personal pride of each member of the university...
...book has been placed at Leavitt & Pierce's to receive the names of any who wish a reprint on heavier paper of the colored picture in the Lampoon. The reprint will not be taken unless one hundred names are signed. If only one hundred copies are wanted, the price will be 25 cents, if more are wanted, the price will be proportionately lower...
...Regulation, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the Secretary, may be left at 18 Grays...
...turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed men of America and the Corporation are getting control of the Government, and will bye and bye rule the United States; that we are on the verge of an awful precipice and likely to fall over unless something be done at once. He proposes to have a tax upon property which shall increase in percentage as the amount of property rises. On $100,000 there is to be one per cent. paid as taxes; on $1090,000 ten per cent.; on $10,000 but one tenth...