Word: whether
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...particular the duty came home to Harvard men. In the college, more than anywhere else, there is a vast store of energy, vitality, health and wealth of all things of which the world has need. The problem which consciously or not is decided by each student is whether in the use of these he shall consult his own exclusive advantage, or shall consider that he holds...
...Pooling is a positive evil.- (a) Pooling tends to deprive the public of the benefits of improvement in the R. R. service: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 229.- (i) A road will get from the pool its alloted share of patronage whether it affords the best or the poorest service to the public.- (b) Pooling causes an artificial maintenance of rates, which stimulate the construction of parallel and competing lines: Select Senate Comm. Rept. on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, pp. 888, 1295, 127.- (c) Pools tend to increase the frequency and violence of Railway wars: Hudson...
...member of the community does not begin with his possession of a college degree. When his dependence upon the government is so directly and so constantly shown as it is in his dealings with the post office, he cannot be indifferent to the general efficiency of the service, whether he is in college...
...there is no suspicion as to the identity of the thief, if indeed the act was committed by one person. The strength of the bar of iron which was wrenched apart makes it a matter of doubt whether one person could readily have done it unassisted...
...impossible to find terms strong enough to condemn the theft of the Louisburg Cross from the University Library. Whether the person who committed the act was aware of the peculiar value of the cross, or not, the offence is an unpardonable one, and the penalty, in case the thief should be discovered, ought to be severe. Supposing, what is by no means certain, that the act was committed by a student, it will reflect seriously upon the University if many days are allowed to pass without either the return of the cross or the apprehension of the man who took...