Word: murders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Politics is a field where earnest workers are much needed. Discard the habit of sneering at politics and politicians. A college professor once committed a murder; it would be rash to assume that all college professors are inclined to homicide. It is the duty of every man of brains and leisure to go into politics. Be in sympathy with your age and country, - your country especially. Anglomania is synonymous with a weak intelligence and an imperfect education...
...many students fully appreciate the relative importance of these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will...
...state of society, however, was very uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
...affairs began to grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...flowing scene gave Mr. Sanford an opportunity to improve over Mr. Stevens in his rendering of Calpuria, but Mr. Cummings as Caesar was far too deliberate, both in action and speech Several of the following scenes were very striking, especially the scene of the murder and of the first address of Antony...