Word: elemente
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...offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets, sacques and hats. The interested reader can obtain no adequate idea of the harmonious details I attempt to describe, until he realizes that this room has the ordinary proportions of a chamber. Order is, doubtless, a strong element in the character of the Annex students, but there are overruling circumstances...
...services rendered by the Advocate during the years of its past history have been such as to make any danger of the failure of this paper a very undesirable result. We hope, then, that the new departure in Harvard journalism may finally result in a coalition of the new element with the element represented by the management of the Advocate, a course which may at the same time conduce to the attainment of the object in view and preserve the honored name which the Advocate has so long maintained among...
...long as these weak protected industries exist, we can have nothing to expect but dissatisfaction and even threats of violence on the part of the laborers who do not know the real cause of the uncertain returns in the industries in which they are employed. A very dangerous element is introduced into our politics at every canvass by the declarations to the laborers, that their livelihood depends upon legislative acts and not their own ability and prudence. Free traders and protectionists both agree on the desirability of a diversity of industries, but differ in the method of obtaining that diversity...
...were the book free from all the defects which I have mentioned, it would still be open to criticism from its lack of humanity, or more explicitly, the element of human nature in the characters. The adventures and for tunes of the actors are those of no flesh-and-blood creations, and the book lacks the vividness and realness of the truly great novels and romances of the world. And this fault is a great one in the opinion of all who see a novel's greatness in its truth to human nature, and not in a clever plot...
...Amherst College senate threaten to withdraw their base-ball nine from the league if betting on the game becomes as prevalent as it was last spring. The senate are supported by a strong element in the college who believe that "backing up" the nine by wager is the most effective means of demoralizing the players...