Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is one pitfall that we hope our old friend and rival will avoid, though in regard to the undergraduate feeling we have no fear, - there exists, we are compelled to believe, among American colleges, a fear of being suspected of desiring to imitate other colleges. Especially is this true with regard to the attitude assumed towards Harvard. This must always be the feeling towards all innovators, - and Harvard has certainly introduced many innovations of late years into her collegiate life. Therefore, while deprecating such a feeling toward us, we should like to point at one as a possible danger...
Miss Fortescue the celebrated English actress, attended by a friend and chaperone visited Memorial Hall, yesterday during lunch time...
...Grandfather Merryman: or a Friend in Need: A. E. Aldrich. O. B. Zell, Springfield, Ohio...
...Shall Avarice Rule?" asks "a friend of humanity" in the seventy page pamphlet before us. The anonymous author seems to be much of a pessimist, a man, or woman, struggling either to incite the citizens of the United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly...
...besides this our "friend of humanity" proposes to put all corporations under government control and cites many good authorities to support him in this and the taxation question. The "Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish...