Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon which our Dining Association is conducted. In this laundry, which is used almost exclusively for washing the soiled table linen, are employed four or five women, who have nothing to do except to attend to these duties. Here, too, are the latest improvements in machinery, which saves a vast amount of labor. You can get some idea of the rapidity of work, when you consider the fact that when our present steward first entered upon his duties, there were scarcely enough table clothes to go around once, and when soiled, had to be washed, dried, and ironed between meals...
...materials for study of the vast interests involved to political and economic science in the railroads even of the United States alone, are by no means few and inaccessible. It is a subject, we contend, which in the degree of its importance ranks only after the tariff and the financial history of the United States subjects covered by the courses in Political Economy numbered 6 and 8,- and the extent of popular ignorance of it is far greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile...
...problem is such a vast one that any speculation on it seems almost in vain. Year by year the College press here has alternately thundered and complained, and the only appreciable result has been that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...
...that name and deep regret at the loss which Harvard shares with world. It is the character of such men no less than their learning that makes their influence a whole some one and in Dr. Abbott was combined a character of the rarest purity and learning, most vast and accurate. the value of a residence at a great university lies not alone in the opportunities offered for the acquisition of learning, but in the surroundings. When one is constantly thrown in contact with a circle of men whose only aim is to know the best the world can offer...
...second resolution, of course, raises the question what it a "professional," as to which, as many of our readers know, there is a vast body of learning in existence, but as yet no common agreement. Assuming that the word is here used roughly to de note any one who is not undergraduate, but who rows or plays ball as a matter of business, it seems rather hard that a college nine or crew should not have a right to get themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with...