Word: remains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...people of the United States, he said, were in very great danger from the class of professional politicians and saloon keepers, which they had allowed to grow up. Boston has had to be put into the hands of the State police, because no mayor could remain in office there and appoint police unless he was subservient to the liquor dealers. All saloon keepers have to give bonds that they will not break the stringent laws enacted against the liquor traffic. Two years ago more than half of these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct...
President Eliot very aptly remarked that we cannot claim to have an American educational system so long as some of the eccentricities which characterize it remain; the lack of any fixed standard of admission to the professional schools, for instance; and the existence of scientific schools claiming to do parallel work to the college but having a much lower standard of admission. These conditions which make it possible for the American student to leave long gaps in his education are eccentricities which no well balanced system of education would admit. The thought that this suggests is certainly novel and almost...
...paper will appear enlarged by two columns, but the price of subscription will remain the same...
...Lathrop to leave Harvard. What Mr. Lathrop's feelings about leaving are, it is perhaps impossible to know; and in any case they do not materially affect the discussion of the question. It is but natural, however, to suppose that, other things being fairly equal, he would prefer to remain at Harvard; and it is equally natural to suppose that he, like any other instructor in the University, can hardly refuse to better his condition. In other words we should suppose that, under the present arrangements Mr. Lathrop could hardly stay at Harvard...
Something like four weeks remain before the 'varsity crew will go to New London. Such is the present plan of the management. Just now, however, it looks as if the management were to be sadly hampered by lack of money. The crew has been under heavy expense throughout the entire year. Every effort has been made to manage affairs economically; but the fact still remains that at present the funds promise to be inadequate. The only resource to which the crew can look is the generosity of the college. This generosity, we are confident, has not been too heavily taxed...