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...other arguments, practical and moral, in favor of this plan, too numerous to be given in this article. It seems to me that from whatever standpoint you look at it this arrangement is desirable. It is politic, fair, and just, while the present plan is impolitic, - since it is uncertain of success, - and is eminently unfair and unjust to a large number of students...
...family where I called. I aired some of my newly acquired philosophical knowledge to two young ladies who were kind enough to listen to me. Thus my call was passing pleasantly and profitably, when, unfortunately, a cousin of the family chanced to come in. He was a gentleman of uncertain age, but evidently desired to be considered younger than he really was; he was of a cynical temperament; although he had always lived in Boston, he did not in his youth go to college, and for this he was profoundly thankful; he openly declared that he had never known...
...taken into account. Time in a race is purely relative, and depends almost as much upon the defeated as upon the victors. In the fall of '74 the Matthews and Holyoke crews had a sharp struggle over the whole course, and up to the last moment it was uncertain which crew would win; it is therefore natural to conclude that the time of the winning crew was as good as it could make. On the other hand, the crew which won this fall was not hard pressed, it had no incentive to do better than it did, though...
With a vague, uncertain light...
...strange, uncertain darkness...