Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless it is more blessed to give than it is to receive, and doubtless the consciousness of this fact causes many a miser, waddling slowly homeward, to ease his crusted conscience by tossing a dime for a beggar to waste in drink and debauchery. Such philanthropy is pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing...
...view of the fact that last Sunday was the two hundredth anniversary of the first performance of "The Beggar's Opera the collection of documents on this subject which was given to the Library by the late E. L. Oay '97, is being shown in the Treasure Room this week...
...undergraduate, Gay began buying editions of the "Beggar's Opera", and other works of John Gay. His collection of this author's works was nearly complete. Since his death, the Library has purchased three early editions with peculiarities which had escaped his notice, besides buying later editions as they appear...
...appears on the fly leaf of Dryden's 'Annus Mirabilis' of 1667, and of a 1662 Elzovir edition of Pierre Charron's 'De La-Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible...
Practice & Business. Stories of the industry and honesty of young Herrick beggar those of the hatchet, the cherry tree. Legendary is the $8,000 note, endorsed for a slippery friend, which the young lawyer and his wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick...