Word: writings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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WANTED.- A few reliable and energetic men to take orders for strictly first-class nursery stock, on salary or commission. Write for terms at once to EDW. O. GRAHAM, Nurseryman, Rochester...
WANTED.- A few reliable and energetic men to take orders for strictly first-class nursery stock, on salary or commission. Write for terms at once to EDW. O. GRAHAM, Nurseryman, Rochester...
...offered amounts to saying that they would undoubtedly have won if they had not been beaten-which none of us can deny; we can only suggest that there might have been a tie. But joking aside, there seems to be but little ground for such a sweeping assertion. I write this the more frankly because I believe the majority of Princeton men admit that at least they were overmatched, and Harvard's relations with Princeton have always been the pleasanter for the universal manliness with which the Jersey men accept defeat, when fortune wills that it shall be theirs...
Once more we appeal to eighty-nine and ninety. If they will not subscribe, let them write; if they lack brains to write, let them subscribe. The senior class does not enjoy a perpetual tenure of office, and it is time for the under classmen to do something. They are not boys, and should recognize their duties as men. At present it would seem they had found the fountain of perpetual youth, and that it had stunted their growth at the bib period of life...
Conscious sources are very difficult. Why should men write that the future may read? The only solution is the literary impulse which has always existed with greater or less power. In ancient and mediaeval times notices of sacred days contained appendices of the important events which had occurred since the last notifications. Unfortunately, most of the annalists of the middle ages were unintelligent. Most of the original sources of the history of this era have now been printed, through the energy of the modern German scholars. This brings up the invention of printing, the great value of which...