Word: real
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report of the Treasurer shows a real falling off in the rate of income this year, as compared with last, of about 28/100 of one per cent; and, until the value of money and the rental value of real estate shall increase, a still further falling off is to be expected. The amount of expenditure for 1877 was $224,575.07, of which $158,406.90 came from undergraduates. The total invested funds of the College amount...
...real question raised by the privilege of voluntary attendance, as it concerns the lowest scholars, does not relate to loss or gain in scholarship, but simply to the best means of securing a certain degree of routine, as a safeguard against the distractions and temptations which a great university necessarily presents. In short, if I may use the term without any invidious suggestion, the real question as regards them is a question of police regulation which can be provided for in more ways than...
...opinion that the page would have looked much better if it had been printed uniform with the rest of the book. While we have found some few things to criticise, we have found much to praise in the book; and it should be remembered that the Index supplies a real need here at college, and that nowhere else can we have in so convenient a form the information that it contains...
...authors' real names be found under their pseudonymes. Why force real names into the heads of students who are in a hurry for certain books? Mr. Winsor should remember that the elective system still reigns at Harvard...
...trust, however, that no such feeling will arise. It is natural and right that Harvard should particularly wish to defeat Yale, and that she should make other things subservient to that wish. Any one who studies Harvard's action in this affair will see the existence of a real desire to row Columbia. Our challenge has certainly received careful attention; and the only question which prevents its immediate acceptance is a natural one of expedience. Columbia wants to row some college; and, for all reasons, Harvard is the most desirable. No false ideas of dignity should present themselves to cause...