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...their turn and under a new government need not be further ground down. But the more practical and, for business men, the more appealing argument, is that it may be better to reduce our just claims and then receive payment of the remainder, than to insist on the uttermost farthing and obtain no returns at all from a Europe badly wrecked upon economic rocks...
...true. Nor is it essentially true. It is true in its outward aspect, but so far as the true view of success in life is concerned, so far as your service to the world is concerned, in teaching and educating young minds so that they may realize the uttermost of all that is in them, this contrast is misleading. I am not sure but that when filled with red blood of youth, we all look forward to our careers, and contrast the great world with the quiet college, we are apt to underestimate the teacher. His life is not what...
...here is at present wholly without funds, and the demands of collectors should therefore be willingly met. The receipts from the game itself are not to be counted upon entirely for covering expenses. Ninety-six men will surely realize that any delay on their part in fulfilling to the uttermost the conditions which have been made with Yale, is not to be tolerated. We believe that the junior managers will find their task an easy...
...centre of attraction at present is the new dormitory, concerning which so much has been said in the papers that no description is here necessary. The work of preparing the grounds is being rapidly pushed, and work on the buildings will soon be begun and pushed to the uttermost, the contractor agreeing to have it completed by January...
...wrath of the custodians of the highways, who will quickly deliver ye to the judge, and the judge will deliver ye to the officer, and ye be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto you, ye shall by no means come out thence till ye have paid the uttermost farthing...