Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strange what a warm heart he had, and how he sympathized with the poor and desolate. He never had had any hardship, or any personal sorrow, yet his was the kindest heart and his the tenderest words to the sorrowful. It is the poor who mourn him most of all, and feel that only God is left for them...
Fortunately however, England is beginning to awake, but can this be said of us Americans? We do not yet recognize the Golden Rule. Many a poor man would willingly work and better himself but is dragged down by social conditions that are rapidly widening the gap between the rich and the poor. Whatever the gains in wealth, hatred between employer and employee is becoming more and more marked. We want less luxury more good will. In politics, too, private interests have taken the place of patriotism. Parties are held together only by gigantic systems of bribery...
Before such audiences John Dryden made his fame or, perhaps better won his popularity. His plays at first very poor, gradually grew better until finally he captured the London court, and henceforth his position was secure. Dryden was hardly a man of lofty ideals, and he much preferred the popularity of the moment and its substantial rewards than any amount of posthumous glory...
...University. The need of a new library and a reading room is a crying one, growing more and more obvious every year and long ago reaching a point where some action must be taken. Gove Hall has long since ceased to be satisfactory; it is built upon a poor model and is too small to hold our increasing library, while the reading-room is narrow, cramped, poorly ventilated and totally inadequate. A library building such as this is hardly a credit to the university, and we have complained of it a long time and hoped for an improvement. The suggestion...
...last number was Wagner's Overture "The Flying Dutchman." This was the first work in which the composer attempted to characterize persons by fixed musical phrases. The familiar story of the poor mariner who was doomed to wander over the ocean in endless misery is well illustrated by the progress of the Overture. The conflicts in his mind as well as the conflicts in the elements about him are pictured very vividly by the variety of themes and the manner in which they are worked out. The Overture is a fine piece of music picturing...