Word: directive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students, and by the schools which prepare for Oberlin, taking into consideration, at the same time, the comparative ages of students at admission with their consequent maturity or immaturity of mind, and also the relative breadth and liberality of culture imparted during the freshman year by influences, both direct and indirect, at either place, the substantial truth of our first thesis as an illustration remains still unimpaired. We would, by no means, be willing to use the University of Michigan in this statement as also representative of Western colleges of mediocre stamp, as the Review would seem to wish...
FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot, Boston...
...stand on the question. Colleges do not harbor drunkards, and total abstinence is preeminently a remedy for the cure of drunkards. The greatest influence on college men is the force of public opinion. And if there is a demand for such a movement as this, we believe it should direct its chief energies towards influencing public sentiment. That indeed, we are glad to see, is provided for in the scheme of the H. T. A. L. Lectures by Phillips Brooks and Doctor James will certainly be listened to with the greatest of interest and respect by the college...
...examples may be given: Apartments to let should be apartments to be let; all over the land, over all the land; it fell on the floor, it fell to the floor; my every hope, all my hopes; he covered it over, leave out over; address your letters, not direct them; he lay on the sofa, not laid; etc. The book is an invaluable aid to any one wishing to converse effectively and correctly. For sale by Moses King, Harvard square. Price fifty cents...
FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot, Boston...