Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...content with bringing in poverty from the outside, but we produce it in a wholesale way. There are three great tragic armies of working girls; those who, because of insufficient wage and excessive work, fall early victims to tuberculosis; those who, due to the strain of long hours, are succumbing to nervous prostration; and those who, because of worrying on the problem of mere existence, yield to melancholia...
...Milnor Rideout; "Epicureans," by Warren Seymour Archibald; the second of Hermann Hagedorn's "Songs of Sunlight"; and the really beautiful first of Joseph Trumbull Stickney's sonnets "To F. L. P.," unusual in thought as well as finished in expression. Several of the longer poems, although somewhat conventional in content, are unusually good for undergraduate work, such as "A. Journey Long Ago," by Alanson Bigelow Houghton; Henry Sheldon Sanford's "Ode to Death"; and Julian Helburn's "Ballade...