Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...MacFarland, Div., the first Yale speaker, claimed at the outset that Harvard had misinterpreted the question; that the real issue was for them to prove that the United States should adopt definitively the gold standard, and should once for all put themselves beyond the possibility of a change. He then went on to claim that this simply meant a continuance of all the unrest and disaster of the last twenty-five years...
Against this evil influence of patronage, there have been constitutional checks but they have been superficial. Such provisions as that no member of Congress shall hold office and that of the advice and consent of the Senate on all appointments mean nothing. Our real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups...
...given by Mr. Woodruff in December. Miss Horsford, who appeared in the December matinee as Mrs. Ryce in "Massa Van" will appear as "Suke" in this number, and five of the seven characters are colored. The scenery of the play will be rendered especially realistic by a quantity of real southern moss which has been sent up from Georgia...
...with any more contempt than that of the man who comes out for a team, shows himself physically worthy of a place on it, and, just as he is beginning to be relied on for steady work, allows himself to be put on probation because he has not enough real interest in the wellfare of the team and the University to do the small amount of work necessary to keep up in his courses...
...regretted that the writer has seen fit to apply to himself a general criticism of so real an abuse, thereby compelling us to give so much space to a story already worn threadbare...