Word: things
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nevertheless some of the consequences of treating the Washington rule as continuously applicable have been far-reaching. The best example is, perhaps, to be found in our commercial isolation. Washington meant no such thing and yet the rule has been used as a means of fastening upon the country protection in its most extreme form. But while commercial isolation does not necessarily follow from political isolation, for all that the two policies are allied and being once adopted support each other. Each denotes alike that the nation feels sufficient to itself...
...expected to use reasonable care and prudence as to what they eat and drink, to be regular in their habits, and to be in bed as a general thing by 10.30 to 11 o'clock...
...number of the Lampoon which comes out today is on the whole better than the average, and in spite of two very old jokes and an uninteresting article on "Dangers of Arctic Industries," is very good reading. The best thing in the issue is a take-off on "The Voice" showing the effects of prohibition at Harvard and the lack of it at Yale. The illustrations are all very fair and the poems are cleverer than usual. The editorial on the new board of the Lampoon contains bright hits on the other college papers. But it is to be hoped...
...most Harvard organizations there is the tendency, and it might be said to be almost a tradition, that the Senior during his last half year is a privileged character to be let down as easily as possible. But a few months and his college life will be a thing of the past; therefore he should take things as easily as possible while...
...which we are all of necessity interested, yet the authorities in charge have not thus far seen fit to vouchsafe us the slightest explanation. Much as the new building ought to prove a distinct addition to the beauty of the Yard, this is probably the last thing it is likely to be according to the general verdict. Would there not therefore, to put it mildly, seem to be sufficient cause for a reconsideration of the site, or at the very least, for a publication of the arguments in its favor...