Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...overdo it; let the thoughtless be more thoughful of others, and the over-sensitive less so. As to clubs, my experience has shown me that there are just as refined, manly men outside of clubs as in them, and in one club as another; such organizations could use their influence as well to establish and maintain an esprit du corps of all the students as to gain advatage exclusively for themselves...
...parity with gold. A. The legal tender quality alone will not keep silver at par. (1) This is disproved by (a) Case of present Mexican dollar; (b) Case of greenbacks during the war (Laughlin Rev. of Rev., Sept. '96). B. History shows that an increased demand for silver for use in coinage has not caused a permanent rise in the price of silver. (1) From '78 to '93 the price of silver has steadily fallen, though, (a) during that period the U. S. took $600,000,000 worth off the market. (b) During the same period India also took...
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...nonpartisan" attitude is "impractical," that "it has a good deal of weakness, and tendency to procrastinating all but the easiest decisions," (whatever this last may mean). And again, how strange to read that Harvard men, and "even less than the graduates of other colleges," "have been of very little use to our country in politics." And yet James Russell Lowell is still remembered, and we are still in mourning for William E. Russell. and only a little while ago Theodore Roosevelt was the most talked-of man in the country...
...buildings as the Megaron and in the palace at Mycenae and Tiryns, in Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem, and also in Egyptian buildings. By the aid of numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms of the columns and the entablature were derived from earlier wooden forms in use in the palaces of the heroic age. The well-known column between the two lions in the Lion's Gate differs but slightly from the earliest extant Doric columns; and in fact quite recently a column with flutings has actually been discovered in one of the ancient beehive tombs...