Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerts already scheduled for this season include the Bach B-miner Mass, to be given in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, a concert at Smith College on May, 2, 1931, and the annual performance preceding the Yale game. Plans for inferred four to the Middle West are being made for the yearly spring trip...
...also as difficult to quarrel with the whole or any portion of Mr. Bacon's speech. However, the words of the Pennsylvania coal miner who sent his son to college at considerable sacrifice so that the latter might be able in after-life to "look any man in the face and tell him to go to Hell", perhaps present a sounder philosophy of life than the noted speaker makes them out to hold in his anecdote. Mr. Bacon's objections to this code are rightly chosen insofar as the man might have meant opposition to the society of which...
...their several communities, to give them a keener appreciation of the duties of citizenship, to enable them to contribute something of value to the well-being of their fellowmen. It teaches the obligations of service. It involves a point of view directly opposite to that held by the coal-miner of Pennsylvania, who, with great sacrifice to himself and family, sent his son to one of our universities. When asked by a friend the reason for so doing, he replied: "I am determined to give him every advantage of an education in order that when he finishes college...
This coal-miner had a mistaken notion of man's true relation to the society of which he is a part. The more advantages one has the greater the duty to use them for the good of others. Alexander Hamilton sincerely believed in the necessity of entrusting the government only to men of education and tradition, men of the so-called aristocracy of those days. Any such conception is of course contrary to our principles of equality, but, says President Hibben, "the spirit of a true aristocracy of service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have...
...Berlin, Joseph Szigert, disconsolate Hungarian miner, swallowed 1 Ib. of dynamite, put a bit more in his mouth, chewed it, blew...