Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mentioned who is accessible. Mr. Cumnock says: "I have never made any offer of pecuniary aid to any person, to become or to remain a member of the Harvard team, and such offers have not to my knowledge been made by any member of the Harvard Football Association. The whole charge is false and without foundation from beginning to end." Mr. Upton says: "I did not state to Mr. L. D. Mowry or to any other person that money offers of any kind had been made to me or to other members of the Andover team. No such offers have...
...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value...
...voting was as follows: on merits of the question, affirmative 6, negative 8; on merits of principal disputants, affirmative 4, negative 12; on question as a whole, affirmative 4, negative...
...prove a surprise even to those who have been all along the most sanguine. Practically every doubtful question has been satisfactorily answered, and certainly every serious charge has been fully met. One of the best features of the report too, is the evident spirit of fairness with which the whole matter has been treated. There has been no attempt at a concealment of Harvard's real faults and no desire to avoid the evidence of any seemingly disagreeable facts which may have been brought to light during the recent controversy. The football question has been met fairly and squarely...
...great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole intellectual activity of the nation centered in its poetry. The Middle Ages became the ideal of the Romanticists; mediaeval subjects were chosen by preface and mediaeval forms of expression were affected. In so far as the movement corrected a prevading one-sidedness in favor of certain ideas, it was useful...