Word: importance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Senate, on Saturday, Mr. Bayard offered an amendment to the freebook bill, giving individuals the right to import books, etc., for their own use and not for sale, free of duty. Mr. Bayard explained that his object was to give poor scholars and students cheaper foreign books...
...extraordinary memorial to the Columbia Boat Club which appeared yesterday morning, signed by certain Harvard alumni, is to us inexplicable and astounding. The only conjecture that can be made to explain its appearance and its import is that its framers and signers are ignorant of or have utterly ignored the statements recently advanced by the Harvard Boat Club, in explanation of the conduct of the crew. The students of Harvard have read the statements of Columbia and of their own crew; from these they are satisfied that without question the Harvard crew can not be justly accused of dishonorable conduct...
...first sight the above rule seems to wear an aspect of absurdity, but when carefully considered the full import of its meaning becomes clear. It must be said that the great influence of fashions upon character and morals is too often disregarded by those in authority. That provisions looking to the abolishment of long hair in this college should have existed is perfectly proper. It is a self-evident fact that long hair per se is subversive of all established rules and authority. It is needless to dive into antiquity to secure proofs in support of this proposition. Society declares...
...told that men at Yale are accustomed to read trots to one another for fifteen cents an hour. Cannot the Co-operative Association import a few, and thus break up the monopoly now held by the youthful scions of the Cambridge gentry...
...contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects assigned for the college forensick disputations;" solutions of problems in mathematicks; discussions in natural history; "compositions in the classical languages;" "essays of a moral and religious import;" "a part of every number shall be unalienably devoted with religious sacredness to original poetry;" and finally, "under a miscellaneous head anything which shall seem properly introduced into a literary journal." Taste and zeal truly robust! How the pallid young collegian of today shrinks aghast at such a programme of literary diversion...