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...Explain the dative here of interest...
...like the Bible because it makes glad the waste places." Of course-it is. Explain both allusions...
...matter of pride to Rochester, N. Y., as well as to the firm directly interested, that yesterday a cable despatch was received stating that the French government had adopted the tobacco and cigarettes manufactured by Wm. S. Kimball & Co., of that city. We should explain, perhaps, that all tobacco sold in France up to this time has been manufactured by the government. Of late, the demand for other makes has arisen, and the government, to meet it, allowed English and American manufacturers to enter goods for competitive test with a view to the adoption of the best. The fact that...
...there were not as many new contestants drawn out as could have been wished. To be sure, the time for training in the autumn is short, and the greater attractions of football and rowing take away some men's attention from the Athletic meetings; but this cannot wholly explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration the number of men in the University, it does not seem too sanguine to expect that at least five good men should compete in each of the more important sports. The weather was, unfortunately...
...person who, in a recent letter, attempted to explain away a suggestion advocating the admitting of Freshmen to the Tree on Class Day next, is, to say the least, illogical in his arguments and narrow in his views. He talks of "pleasing the Freshmen at the expense of the other classes," in a tone which is arrogant and unfair...