Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should depend on his own abilities. This is the most dangerous and demoralizing effect of a system of high tariff. A tariff forces capital into those occupations where it would not naturally go, and where the natural advantage is relatively small, and thus the condition of many naturally weak industries is very precarious on account of the possible changes in the rate of duty. The condition of the laborers in these industries is very bad, and from them have arisen the complaints which have brought into such prominence of late years, the "Labor Question." Foreign immigrants with their pernicious ideas...
...questionable if the nine gets benefit enough from practice games with weak nines, like the team against which it played last Saturday, to repay the trouble incurred by the management in arranging the matches. It seems as if a sharp game played against either the second nine, or the freshmen would be much more to the purpose, while by playing against the freshmen, the base-ball interest of the college would be doubly benefited. If the announcement should be made that the freshman and 'Varsity nines were to play a regular game, the attendance of students at the match would...
...freshman played their first game Saturday, at Newtonville, and were defeated by the home team. The ground was simply mountanous and the crowd noisy, neither of which, however, is an excuse for the wretched playing of the freshmen. The batting was lamentably weak, and the fielding, though at times fair, as a rule was poor, and showed want of practice and a tendency to get rattled. Fargo and Palmer did the best work for the freshmen, and Bates for the High School...
...situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several of the climances that occur in the course of the story, the feeling...
During the two or three years before his entrance to college, it is true, the boy feels some dim forebodings of trouble ahead; but a decisive step to meet it is seldom taken. Human nature is weak, and the issue is generally avoided, while the anxious son consoles himself with the thought that years may bring wisdom to the dear parents...