Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devoted much serious thought to his subject. The utter impossibility of the absolute realism to which modern writers tend ever becoming a true work of literature is forcibly and convincingly stated. The style of the essay is throughout smooth, the language is glowing and full of life-a worthy medium for such good thoughts...
...runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly from the fact that, if the game becomes a mere medium for betting, it will be a public nuisance and ought to be suppressed; and partly from its effects on the team and its playing.' The force and truth of this whole article can hardly be overestimated. With a clear exposition of the facts, nature and method of the game, the author...
DEAR SIR: - By a recent change in its constitution, this Society is enabled to supply books and other goods to all members of the University, whether members of the Society or not. It desires to become the medium of supply for all text-books. To accomplish this purpose, the Society will undertake to procure at its own risk the number of books which any instructor thinks needed for his courses for the ensuing academic year, provided that the instructor will give the Society exclusive information as to the books he will use. A monopoly is obviously necessary to warrant...
...which had for its fundamental principles the three following truths: First; - That all materials suitable for coinage may be made into money - Second - That the abundance of money is the condition on which depend labor, husbandry and population. - Third. That paper is more suitable than metals for a circulating medium...
Last evening a spiritualistic seance was held in Lyceum Hall, which was highly successful except that the pastor of a certain Cambridge parish shrewdly guessed the way the feats were performed and gave the whole thing away in a manner exceedingly painful for the somewhat corpulent medium...