Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University men we feel the immense obligation which America owes the universities of Germany. Our men of letters and science know well the unparalleled contributions Germany has made to pure knowledge and to science in the new arts and industries...
...This tendency was marked by a change from writing for art's sake alone, to writing for a purpose. Instead of placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works to make his people familiar with foreign lands. He spoke of the virtues of patriotism, and in closing paid a grateful tribute to the great vigor of American ideas...
...money thus collected is deposited in state banks and forms a permanent and ever increasing fund, designated for the use of needy members of the societies. It is an admirable fact that poor workmen are willing to give their share towards these funds, part of which, at least, they know will be used by laborers of future generations less fortunate than themselves...
...years his favorite personages have been peasants; he loves them because they are simple as the domestic animals which live with them. In a word he loves those who are at the bottom, who ignore or know nothing of the moral laws. He ridicules the men who bear on their shoulders the weight of society, who confound police regulations with the moral law, those who think it a sin to break a petty ordinance, but who will commit murder if the law will absolve them...
...whole a jollier place in college life than their predecessors of a decade ago, who toured the country in competition with a dozen other colleges, or gave "benefits" under the auspices of Masonic organizations in neighboring suburbs, and whose chief interest in the Sanders Theatre concerts was to know whether the proceeds would cover the deficit of the last trip...