Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...comparatively young man for his position, as he is not yet 50 years old; but he is a remarkably hardworking, earnest and able man, a stern and straightforward speaker and preacher. His work has been largely among the poorer classes in big cities, where he has studied their life and condition very closely...
...there is another side--the social side--which should not be ignored. However strongly we may oppose making the dormitory a unit in University life, it cannot be denied that it is desirable that men living in the same dormitory should become acquainted with each other in some natural way. The diversity of interests and the mingling of classes and members of professional schools in many dormitories create a tendency against this, and it is such innovations as dormitory rowing which, when kept in their proper position, will be most effective in combatting this tendency. We trust that the various...
...cast of Adam Kraft's relief of the "Town Weigher" from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall in that city. It portrays the town weigher standing in the midst of a group watching the balancing of his scales, thus rendering a graphic scene from primative German burgher life...
...disconcerting way between the colloquial and the literary. Mr. Sheldon's "Delilah" is badly named, for the pathetic female figure finds no prototype in the Philistine woman, and the hero is anything but a Samson. But the dialogue is well-managed, and the incident is only too true to life. Mr. Carlo's "Sin of the Angels" is a college story dealing, not undiscerningly, with the man who would be president of his class but who is absolutely out of the running. It reflects seriously both on the author and the editors that the third sentence should begin, "Being told...
...students. All have an opportunity for the study of the country, its peoples, languages, and modern conditions. There are usually several trips with tents in the course of the year, when the members of the school visit many historical sites, and make the acquaintance of peasant and bedouin life. Occasionally there are adventures with the bedouin, as where the party of two years ago was robbed on the border of the Dead Sea. But travel is ordinarily safe in Palestine. The members of the school last year made many short trips, not requiring tents, and three of greater length with...