Word: children
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nearly two hundred children were trampled to death during the prevalence of a panic at a public hall in Sunderland, Eng., on Saturday evening...
...only make no attempt at display, but look on display or luxury as vulgar. They get the consideration which they enjoy, not from their means, but from their position. The possession or acquisition of money is, therefore, not a sign of social success. A man's wife and children are not troubled by his not possessing it. Some of the most highly placed and respected men in the community live no better than the German professor does, entertain no better and have as little money as he has. Consequently the world at large in Germany does not associate failure...
...things not seen, and by no means with reference to the wants of the ordinary American man of our time, whom we have to get to fill nearly all our salaried positions, with a wife who likes comfort and expects some share in the social life around her, and children who chafe, as all children do, under poverty, and like a taste of the good things that are going. The result has been simply that the leading lawyers hardly ever go on the bench, and that the ablest business men will not accept political positions, but take service with...
...procession, which numbered about three hundred, took its line of march up Fifth avenue, shouting the class cry as it advanced. All the streets along the line of march were crowded with men, women and children waving handkerchiefs and joking with the jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented...
...have once before regaled our readers with some choice specimens of Western college journalism. We cannot resist the temptation to again hold up the scintillations of one of these bright children of genius. The following "personals" appear in a late number of the College Transcript, Ohio, Wesleyan University...