Word: home
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing beyond the number of colds which must naturally be expected among so many persons. As some of these letters mentioned above have been from parents who are more or less exercised about the state of affairs in Cambridge, it will be well for the students in their letters home to emphasize the fact that there is an unusually good state of health in the University. In this way this unfortunate rumor may gradually be dispelled by the facts of the case and this needless anxiety on the part of parents be done away with...
...college world with a weak measure for preventing professionalism and placing college teams on a strictly college basis, but it was found that Yale had prepared laws that would benefit Yale and reduce her opponents. Harvard, with a spirit which all colleges would do well to imitate, begins at home and enacts a series of laws for the purification of Harvard athletics, regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that? The victory is Harvard...
There are many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways...
Chief of those remaining is Winslow Homer. He stands out as a man who has always found his subjects at home. He has succeeded in showing that there is as much beauty on the rocky shores of Maine as there is in Venice. There are many other artists who have done much to further the development of art in America, but there is no space to give them...
...endeavor, in a natural and unpretentious way, to become acquainted with the families of the neighborhood and, after having gained their sympathy and respect, to be of use to them in any way practicable. Simple, social entertainments are sometimes provided, and good books, and methods of profitable amusement at home are suggested. The members also seek the confidence of workingmen and come in contact with their organizations...