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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...argument he reasons a posteriori, from a priori grounds, to put it paradoxically; for it is usually considered the first duty of an inductive reasoner to collect data, but this investigator shows a truly Spinozan disregard for mere facts. In order, therefore, to disentangle his argument from the maze of rhetorical rhapsody in which, like the fabled cuttle-fish of the deep, he shrouds his thought, an analysis is necessary. We find, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVOLUTIONIST AGAIN. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...Harding, Captain and Secretary of the Nine; Mr. Lombard, Captain of the Eleven; Mr. Slade, Secretary of the Eleven. It was voted to discontinue the Class Crew, owing to the existence of the Club crews. It was also voted that the Class Treasurer should be authorized to collect subscriptions for last year's Crew and Nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...this plan the person most interested in collecting the money will collect it, and those paying will pay it just at the moment that they reap the benefits of it; both sound principles of political economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-HOUSE. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...Englishman of moderate means has one great advantage over the American, - he can buy good books of the best authors at a reasonable price. There are hundreds of entertaining and instructive shilling books, not to mention the respectable library one could collect at the rate of sixpence a volume. The leading publishing houses issue at times "libraries," as they call them, of famous authors, in paper covers, it is true, but printed on fair paper and in good type; these "libraries," comprising history, science, and fiction, furnish good reading at prices within the reach of every one who wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEAP LITERATURE. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

SECT. 6. The Assistant Treasurer, who shall not be on the University Crew, shall solicit and collect subscriptions and all debts due the club, but shall not pay any bills, or disburse any money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. U. B. C. | 10/9/1874 | See Source »

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