Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Time poor and slow on first part of recover...
...life if his sympathies have not developed,-if he has not at least begun to feel that other men are worthy of consideration as well as himself. Here at Harvard there is the widest divergence in the means of the students. There are the very rich and the very poor. This inequality breeds good to no one. It grinds out the joy of life to the man who is wretchedly poor, and it makes easy the corruption of life to the man who is enormously wealthy. Any movement which tends to bring about more of an equality of advantages...
...said that the scheme of life which Christ brought to the world was a system of prayer. Prayer is instinctive in man in times of peril and emergency. At such times it is universal; as natural to the poor heathen as to the Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach...
...Boys' Club which was organized in Boston last autumn, is now well established and in a condition to fulfil its mission,- that of exercising an influence for the good over the poor boys of Boston. The project originated with Mr. Peabody of Groton, who addressed the St. Paul's Society on the subject in November. Four committees were formed with R. W. Emmons, W. S. Patten, R. Wheatland, and R. Talbot as chairmen. The second story of a house on Oak street, in Boston, was hired and a reading room and gymnasium were provided. The reading room is supplied with...
...size the men at present rowing on the junior crew are rather below the average of class crews. Both the bodywork and the watermanship are poor, but it is hoped that under the coaching of Stackpole and Cameron there will be considerable improvement before the men go on the water...