Word: true
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...result that the corporation sent Senators and Representatives to Congress, who in return, appointed their office-holders in such a way that every section had a feudal chief. When a question arose, passes and tickets were sent to these chiefs, who came to Concord to smother the straightforward, true politician...
...were not finished. As the score now stands, the American team has 2 1-2 points to England's 1 1-2. The two unfinished games are to be adjudicated by Mr. Shipley, but the impression of experts is that America will win them. If this proves true, it gives the Rice Chess trophy to the Americans as this was the deciding match...
...Western Man at Harvard" in the CRIMSON of March 18, it is stated that the best way to bring more Western men to Harvard is for the Western graduates and undergraduates from the West to use their influence to send men here. I believe this to be true, but in addition, much more could be done by the College Office in giving out more extended information than is now given, in regard to undergraduate life at Harvard...
Yesterday the Harvard Bulletin, which now represents so ably the true spirit of Harvard, gave more than a column to a proposal by Mr. F. A. Tupper '80 to organize a Harvard Club in Boston. Why such a club has never been formed before apparently no one is quite able to say. Last year the Class Secretaries' Association appointed a committee to look into the matter; but the committee either failed to report, or else never made clear its objections to the project...
...encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links of the chain wrought with some approach to uniformity and properly welded end to end. It is of course true that in a series of twenty-seven volumes by authors of widely differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions a high standard alike of matter and literary quality has been maintained throughout. The average of excellence...