Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cent. more at the mid years than you would otherwise have. Don't stay here and be uselessly miserable in thinking of the fun you are missing. Don't stay here, only to begin the second half of the year, restless and unrefreshed, half cocked to use a military expression, in strength and vigor. Go home and have a b-l l-y good time. Forget college for a week and write your theses after you get back. You'll do it better and quicker then, and finally, as the professor in a philosophy course, in which the CRIMSON...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Staple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...
Under the above title has just appeared a third volume of translations from Plato, adapted to the use of English readers, from the pen of the scholarly anther of "Socrates" (1879) and "A Day in Athens with Socrates" (1883), both of which works have had a large sale, and have received very favorable notice from the critics and classical scholars both of this country and of Great Britain. These scholars have especially commended the power displayed in bringing Plato's meaning in plain, but remarkably pure English, a point in which they award the palm of excellence to this author...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to, every one at sight. Staple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 per cent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...
...corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish to connect his name with...