Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...erroneous impression which seems to prevail among the lower classes respecting this company. As its roll of membership is at present entirely made up (with one exception) of Juniors, the report has been circulated and generally believed among the lower classes, that the company has become a class affair...
...feeling is growing stronger that, though our Directors do all that we could expect of them, half a dozen inexperienced young men are not able to manage what is really a large hotel, and that it would be far better for all concerned if the College would take the affair into its own hands. The Corporation and Overseers used last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they may have been...
...against the police. It is both interesting and affecting to find in conservative England that same tender sympathy ever existing between student and policeman which marks our relations with the peelers of the Port. A curious event has just occurred at Oxford. We give the Journals account of the affair...
...there has been no other wanton and perfectly objectless destruction of College property. The unusual character of the occurrence makes it doubly worth while to give public expression to what may safely be termed public opinion, and to inform the humorous gentlemen who are presumed to have managed this affair, that, in case of detection, they cannot expect the sympathy of the majority of their fellow-students...
...Adams, Jr., as to the over-production of railroads in the West, and the consequent over-cultivation of land, resulting in loss to both railroads and farms, were to be found in the Nation at an early date. The Nation also pointed out the lesson of the California Bank affair. But why multiply instances? The Nation is, or ought to be, in the hands of all our readers...