Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Secondly, the service these men rendered to their country was absolutely disinterested. No professional interest in war influenced them. No pay, or prize money, or prospect of pension had the least attraction for them. They offered their services and lives to the country, just for love, and out of the determination that, if they could help it, the cause of freedom should take no harm. No mercenary motives can be attributed to any of them. This disinterestedness is essential to their heroic quality. The world has long since determined the limits of its occasional respect for mercenary soldiers. It admires...
Notwithstanding a fairly hopeful prospect, Saturday turned out to be anything but a Harvard day. Every one of the four teams representing the University was defeated, the Freshman Nine losing its first game of the season...
...good deeds that he does; yet week after week he goes to a "Boys' Club" in some wretched district of Boston; or he gathers about him the little band that centres round a "Home Library"; there is a sailors' mission where Harvard students may be found Sundays, and a "Prospect Union," where men who have toiled all day meet at night to study, and Harvard students are their teachers. They devote time and strength to these, but they say nothing: Silently the rich have given of their abundance to their classmates, who, in the struggle for an education, have...
...PROSPECT UNION.- There will be a photo taken of this year's corps of teachers at the Union next Monday (May 11), at 1.45 p. m., on the steps of the Union building. Everybody please be there, and promptly. Those who do not receive postals and think they should be in it, please send word to 24 Little...
...election of officers of the Prospect Union last night resulted as follows...