Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many days we have been in receipt of communications relative to the proposed university club. We have abstained from commenting on the matter in the hope that the discussion would explain itself. But now that little has been said to the point, do there not remain many questions to be asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist...
...lamentable to see how few undergraduates are able to give an inquiring outsider true and concise knowledge of the working system of our universisy. Most of us are able to explain the nature of the various courses of instruction, and to make clear the requirements for a degree. Beyond this the knowledge of only a very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing...
...ROAST PIG.(a) Explain the use of Onomatopoeia in the formation of the principal parts of pigo, pigere, squeali, gruntum...
...Explain Mill's distinction between productive and unproductive consumption. Does any illustration occur to you of the latter...
...Explain the term "chestnut." How did it acquire its present meaning...