Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...late years there has been an increasing movement toward popular recognition of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12, and now it is proposed to make public recognition of the date at Harvard...
Group II.Edward Franklin Alexander '99, Burr; Percy Arad Atherton 1900, Burr; Charles Hamiton Ayres '98, Bartlett; William Galliford Bale 1900, Bowditch; William Lester Barnes 1900, Class of 1817; Lynn Stanley Beals 1900, Class of 1828; Leon Gage Beely 1900, Sewall; Alfred Abraham Benesch 1900, Price Greenleaf; Harold Bisbee 1900, Class of 1841; Earl Danford Bond 1900, Bowditch; Harry Cook Boynton 1900, William Merrick; Ralph Fanning Butts '99, Henry Bromfield Rogers; Ashton Livermore Carr '99, Burr; John Allen Child 1900, Sever; Richmond Lane Chipman '98, Orlando W. Doe; John Taggart Clark '98, Price Greenleaf; Lyman Kenneth Clark 1900, Sewall; Harry Justin...
...sovereign in every sphere. One profession especially in which the ethical impulse is noticeably lacking is that of journalism. It is said that the tone is low because that is what the people want; but this excuse would justify any crime, from the Crucifixion to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The voice of the people is the voice of God only when it accords with the conscience of a good man, and those who preach divorce between business and righteousness are not friends of the republic...
...Copeland began his lecture on Abraham Lincoln last evening by stating briefly and frankly the exceedingly low and poor beginnings of Lincoln's career. Lincoln's formal education was in fragments, which made up altogether less than a year's schooling. The Bible, however, Aesop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools...
...this, however, contributes little towards understanding the nature and uses of money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...