Word: fight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements in New York showed that there were in them yet 350,000 and over of the dark rooms the Board of Health deemed fatal in 1866. Since then we have found the bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas a ray, of direct sunlight...
...hear much of the slum. The slum is just a question of the per cent. you will take. If 5 per cent. there is no slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...
...young men of today have got to fight it to a finish. New York will be, every growing city in the land--and more and more ours is getting to be a land of cities--will be what the young men of today make up their minds they shall be. And those twenty years--will tell the story of whether we shall last as a people, or not. Noblesse oblige! To those who have had the advantage of a college education falls the duty of leadership. Which...
...Indian game the University team put up the best fight of the season, winning by the score of 5 to 0. Although Captain Foster was unable to play the secondary defense was very strong. The work of Newhall and Starr in handling the numerous punts in the back field was excellent. Starr's work at end in this game was particularly good. The game with Dartmouth last Saturday, although won by the score of 22 to 9 showed the weakness of the University team substitutes many of whom were played in order not to overwork the better men. Dartmouth played...
Then (spoken) fight! fight! fight...