Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fellows previously trained to enter a competition as definite in its rules and qualifications as those met by a record-breaking athlete. Not every athlete wins a cup in his first contest. Neither does every promising fellow win a scholarship. Neither the very rich man nor the very poor is in the contest at all. The poor man cannot train for a scholarship and earn his living at the same time. Yet this same poor fellow, Mr. Bolles recognized, often brought to the University that pluck, all round activity, and tenacity of faith that we needed together with our spirit...
...Bolles's work for the "poor man" is to be memorialized, it seems natural that some permanent means of encouragement be established for just the kind of men whom Mr. Bolles delighted to honor...
...memorial to Frank Bolles in the interest of the poor man will be remote from any system of competitive prizes; it will be something capable of enlargement by the enlistment of student pluck and cooperation; it will be instinct with charity and a simple, firm reproof of the spirit of mendicancy...
...short week ago. His vocation was with men and his work dry and parching enough to have shrivelled the enthusiasm and imagination of any man. But called by God, it would seem, to fill this position, he turned it into an office of kindness and humanity. Many a poor student felt through him the very kindliest influence of the University. He made the position what it now is and yet without an avocation he would have been unable to carry on this constant wearing labor. After his work was done, the multitude satisfied, he went off to the woods, there...
...maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he restoreth my soul." "Ask of the beasts and of the birds and of the fishes and they shall tell thee." "I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor and the causes which I knew not I searched...