Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very caustic review of Allen's "Latin Primer," a work published over five years ago. This manual of elementary Latin composition has its sentences hauled over the coals one after another with a view to show their blunders, and the article is closed by "seriously asking the question, Whether this is the same Joseph H. Allen whose Latin grammar Harvard University recommends to its students, assuring them that it is sufficient for their preparation to enter on the advanced course of that institution." (The italics are copied from the "A. E. M.") Few could gather from such a question that...
...after the formation of the plan of the present Dining Association, an attempt was made to give a reason why so few students - at that time only a hundred - had applied for seats in the Hall. This was attributed to a doubt on the part of students as to whether four dollars a week was a price that would insure good fare, and the suggestion was made that extra dishes should be supplied to those who were willing to pay for them. Four dollars was fixed as the minimum, with the idea that for a little more than that...
...theories with the fact of subscribing to them in blind faith. In so far as the authority of the Nation closes the eye of reason, thus far is it productive of sloth. Not pessimism, but to be cowed into pessimism or anything else, therefore, is the evil. I question whether pessimism, as such, does not tend to increased activity of mind, whatever blight it may cast upon the moral sense, as involving critical examination into things ordinarily unquestioned, and a constant warfare with the received optimism. I might quote the extraordinary activity of the German Schopenhauer...
...perfectly open election. We certainly hope to see each of the different class elements voting, as we are informed one has already done, to conduct this election wholly without regard to their society or association interests; or, at least, declaring publicly what action may be expected from it, and whether or not an open election is to be an only too well rehearsed farce...
...they are necessary, and were not afraid to speak above a whisper at a meeting, our officers would have opportunities to learn our wishes, and we should be free from the present system of confusion, under which, for instance, too often not even the treasurer of a society knows whether it is bankrupt...