Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...name is on the slate. Clique and society lines should be obliterated in Harvard class elections. It is impossible to see how the true Harvard spirit can be fully awakened so long as one-third the members of each Senior class deliberately sacrifice university ideals and interests by blind acts of club partisanship. And the non-society men are no less to blame; with their two-thirds voting power they have been too long indifferent to the evils. As a matter of fact, few men see the evil at the time, and, like the writer, only regret what they have...
...Love is Blind, Henry Eastman Lower...
...John Glenn of the class of '47 died in Baltimore Monday last. After graduating at Harvard he began to study law, but in 1850 suddenly became blind. During the Civil War he took sides with the South and was imprisoned. After the war he engaged in business and has long been active in helping the poor and the charities of Baltimore...
...main theme of "The Miser," as it is called, is the blind greed and selfishness of the old man, Harpagon. The opportunity for the comic element is evident and it is made the most of. In the relations, however, between Harpagon and Cleante and Mariane, his son and daughter the comedy merges into real tragedy. From an eccentricity, Harpagon's closeness becomes a vice which strains his family ties, and threatens to ruin the lives of his children. Neglected by their father they in turn forget their duty toward him. Finally, in spite of this fatal evil which...
...desire that there should be an equitable distribution of goods. But this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually for state schools for the deaf, the blind, lunatics, and for other charitable institutions is proof that the popular mind is in favor...