Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William Howe Nelson '94, died of pneumonia on Saturday in his room in College House. He was one of the many men to whom it is one long struggle to come to college, and to stay here. His parents are poor and have done everything and sacrificed everything in their power that their eldest son might have a college education. Nelson did not have the opportunity of a good school education at Springfield, but since coming to college he has shown great ambition and willingness to work. His scholarship has been high, and withing the short time that...
...Harvard men was brilliant, Dean and Mason especially distinguishing themselves. Stoneham had played together before and was considered the stronger team, but they were beaten by the decisive score of 3.0. The goals were made by Dean, Chase and Hovey. The condition of the ice was poor. Six men went up to play, but as the teams were made up of only five men, lots were drawn and Corbett dropped...
...business here following Christianity means aiding the poor, ministering to the sick, in a word bearing glad tidings to the afflicted. The sure way to aid one's self in such tasks is by a close intimacy with Christ and this can best be attained by daily prayer, which enlarges life and gives strength...
...worst features in the problem that confronts us is the extreme difficulty of separating those who wish to work and earn an honest living from those who are nothing but "dead beats" and intend to remain such. For this very reason it is hard to interest people in the poor. It rarely happens that a poor person who is known to deserve help fails...
...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...