Word: facings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...After cut for deal, the first hand is dealt, and trump card turned. Each player places the card he plays face up ward before him. The side winning each trick takes one of a pile of thirteen counters in the middle of the table...
...choir sang "Come, Holy Ghost," by John Dowland; "Hearken Unto Me," by Sullivan; and "Turn Thy Face From My Sins," by Sullivan...
...knowing clearly where they belong, stay out and try to hold the balance between parties; but such men ignore the fact that achievement is possible only by compromise and union. What parties need now is not principles, but men, the best, the wisest men of the country. In the face of this need the answer of the independent comes like hollow mockery. Well might parties say to such men: "We asked for bread and ye gave us a stone...
...better equipment of knowledge than is given to non-college men, college students owe it to the country that they apply their knowledge for the betterment of government and the elevation of the standard of citizenship. The "Spoils System," as opposed to the "Merit System," is, on the face of it, an evil. As an evil, it calls for active opposition from intelligent citizens, and college men have no right to turn their backs upon it and slight it as beneath their notice. The suggestion in the communication is excellent and we hope that many of the students will...
...thus runs away from the class room, steals time from the class room, steals time from the instructor. Moreover, his exit from the class room is after the manner of the escape of a thief from prison. His motions are hurried, he always waits till the instructor's face is turned away and then he bolts as any thief would do. His face has stamped upon it that expression of conscious guilt, that evasive, sneaking, look, which is perfectly unmistakable. The difference between this thief and the man who steals money is simply that to society...