Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Secretary Carlisle's plan for a circulating medium sound...
...students, have been known time and again to give large sums for men whom they had seen about them, and, in the giving, to keep their own personalities wholly in the background. Members of the Faculty say that many times each year they are called upon to be the medium in assisting poor men with the means of the rich. A large number of the wealthy men are glad to give, if only they can be sure that they will not be known to have given...
...cast-off clothing which is being collected by a committee of students will be distributed to the poor of Boston through the medium of the Andover House. This institution is particularly well-fitted for the purpose; its work is being carried on at present by four young men, all of whom are college graduates, and two of whom were graduated from Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses...
Since then Harvard has certain advantages which cannot be extended to women through Radcliffe as a medium, and since these can probably be extended directly without any sensible disturbance of present conditions, we see no reason why they should not be extended. Much good and no harm will result...
...Aristotle and his commentators were for many centuries the chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading was chiefly of the writers of the sixteenth century, has the most Latin style of any of our modern authors...