Word: poore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view. This he calls the pagan morality, and such it is if Francis Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism and Cotton Mather of non-Catholic Christianity. But may it not here be the signs of a growth in wisdom, the accumulation of maturing years? Besides, poets are notoriously poor philosophers; even Dante has been suspected of heresy for placing Siger de Brabant in Paradise. And so Mr. Wright would beatify his "fair Pagan." "For he who going through life, embraces virtue like a friend--he it is who attains to the Perfect City and the Happy Islands...
...plans for spring football, which are usually made about this time, have been delayed by the poor weather. The football management has decided that spring practice will be postponed until just before the Easter recess and will continue again after the vacation. In addition to players, a call will be made for second assistant manager candidates at that time, and their competition will last during the practice, beginning again with the start of football in September...
...Second University hockey team went through a successful season, winning three out of its four games. Although there were eight games scheduled, poor ice and lack of proper conditions prevented four of them being played. The first game with Middlesex School, played at Concord, was won by the second team, 7 to 2. Stone School was beaten in the Stadium by a score of 14 to 0, the seconds encountering little opposition. The game with the Boston College second team was also won by the second team, 6 to 0. In the last game, St. Paul's School of Concord...
...poorest lad in all the land. This is the real Harvard as I came to know her and to love her. The Harvard, the least affected with the false spirit of wealthy aristocracy and snobbery, and the most democratic of our great universities in America; the Harvard, where any poor boy without wealth or social distinction can go, trusting only in the ambition of an honest heart and noble purpose, relying only on his own brain, character and ability, can meet all classes on the common, equal level of privilege and opportunity; be treated as a brother and equal...
Caslon was the first to introduce excellent printing in England. Previous to his work, poor, Roman type brought over from Holland had been employed. John Baskerville refined Caslon's work to an almost too ornate extreme. A splendid example of Baskerville's printing is to be seen in a large volume in the collection, dated...