Word: tend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little but felt a great interest. He hoped that the students would individually do all in their power to correct these impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small groups and there by to live narrow lives destroying the great democratic spirit which ought to exist. It keeps what is good in men where its influence cannot be felt and makes it impossible to approach what is bad. He urged men not to allow themselves...
...talk will be given in English D on Thursday, at 12 o'clock in Sever 11. English C will meet at the same place at 3 o'clock on Thursday. The students in each course are expected to register at the hours named. Throughout the year students may at tend either the lectures at 12 o'clock or those at 3 o'clock...
...Monthly for June contains more variety in its articles than most of the numbers this term, though they tend as frequently towards literary subjects. The graduate article is a timely contribution by Professor F. W. Taussig on "Political Economy and Business," since, as the author writes, "nearly every undergraduate takes a course in Political Economy sooner or later in his college career," it will aid many students in their choice of electives to be informed of the real relation of this study to after life. Professor Taussig shows that it "is concerned little, if at all, with the individual...
...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...They tend to build up an oligarchy which controls legislation and the courst against the interests of the community. North...