Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication criticising the Harvard Union which appeared in Thursday's CRIMSON is in many respects just. The present method of electing members is a poor one, but it may as well be said that it has arisen unconstitutionally. The constitution requires a secret ballot on every name proposed and a four-fifths vote to elect. As a member of the Union I thank '94" for calling attention to this provision and promise him that hereafter it will be enforced. The other practice which "94" deplores is the practice of squabbling over motions instead of speaking. This practice really is deplorable...
...system of grading will be introduced at Columbia in the near future. Instead of the present system of numerical grades, students will be classified into five groups according as their work has been excellent, good, fair, poor or a failure...
...divisions between rich and poor which exist in he c+++, the churches are themselves largely responsible, for they have been planted for the most part in fashionable quarters leaving the poorer districts to chapels and missions. In a great city, the congregations cannot be composed only of those people living in the neighborhood of the church. The church must be a large one with its work well organized and carried on six days in the week. It must not be simply a preaching place...
...however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism...
...knew Best of all" Frances Hodgson Burnett's account of her own childhood, is perhaps the most noteworthy contribution of the current Scribner's. There is a paper on the Peary Relief Expedition by the chief of the expedition and another of the articles on the "Poor in Great Cities," deals with Naples. Frederic Crowninshield gives the "Impressions of a Decorator in Rome...