Word: liking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to add that my experience as University Preacher at Harvard has greatly deepened my long cherished conviction and my frequently expressed opinion that no body of men can be so safely entrusted with complete freedom, in the matter of visible religious worship, as the students of our colleges. And where that freedom comes - as come it surely and I think speedily will - we shall hear from College men, not 'I was sad or mad,' but 'I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord...
...children playing in the market place are actually playing on the very edge of this tumultuous life. Children like to imitate things in real life. They have their shops, their houses, and then markets and sail their ships on the water. One often feels like keeping children from this show of real life which is to come only too soon...
When at first the play has become a reality one does not mind it. The first business seems like going back to boyish days. But when life loses this element of play, if it does lose it all, there comes the tragedy of real life. It comes when all play is gone and when there is nothing left except tiresome work. He who once worked in play is now driven...
...trustees of the Pa. Museum and School for Industrial Art have been offered $100,000 for the purchase of certain buildings, on the condition that a like sum shall be raised by the trustees. The giver is said to be William Weightman of Philadelphia...
...bright, attractive young girl, who lives with her grand parents, the Baron and Baroness von Buchenan. Von Fink, a dashing young man from the capital is visiting the family, in order to become acquainted with Agnes, the "Ganschen," whom his uncle wants him to marry. He would like to satisfy his uncle's demands, but he has heard from an acquaintance, a certain Silberling, that Agnes is a stupid uneducated girl, and has therefore made up his mind to appear so coarse and ill-bred himself, that the grandparents will send him home. On becoming acquainted with Agnes, von Fink...