Word: great
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...persons having in their possession books belonging to the Porcellian Library will confer a great favor by leaving them at No. 61 Thayer...
...either bowler. Robinson and Cowles alone made average scores. The fielding on both sides was very good, as is shown by the small number of byes. Tilden's bowling was very effective, and Hubbard did some very good work; while, on the Albion side, Shepard and Lockhead did great execution among the weak batsmen. In the second inning Spinney and Ames were in together, and before they were separated had scored 52; 10 on byes, a score of 14 for Ames, and 28, a score unprecedented with us, for Spinney. Curtis and Prince also did some good batting...
...efforts to avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject...
...make it sure that he would not betray the trust: for the sake of science too much care cannot be taken upon this point, since the confidence of the small farmers in their leaders would be annihilated and the experiment fail disgracefully, if there should be very soon a great embezzlement. For the sale of products the preparations have been immense, - elevators built in the large cities of the West, terms made with retail dealers and shipping firms, resistance organized to the monopoly of the combined railroads...
...important mission of our newspapers and magazines is to bring before the great body of the people the best ideas known concerning pressing practical questions. The editors themselves rarely have time for much research and reflection, but they are eager to get the opinions of men of acknowledged weight. What the country needs is the presence of a large class of thoughtful and able advisers, who, like Mr. Woolsey (lately President of Yale College, "our foremost rival in good works") shall raise the tone of the public press on questions of "morals and politics, law and government." "The rudiments...