Word: prospering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic study is precisely in the training which it gives in taking this wider point of view. Political economy will not help its students to prosper; but it will give them a better understanding of the forces which affect the prosperity of the community;" and will help instill into them "an impartial public spirit...
...Prosper Bender's "Winters in Quebec" is a vivid sketch of winter life in the old Canadian city, in marked contrast to our anomalous season...
...Prosper Bender writes on the "Holidays of the French-Canadians." Americans know so little on this subject that no one can find the article trite. "The French Colony of San Domingo," by Professor E. W. Gilliam, is especially timely as our attention is now drawn to that region. Two other interesting articles are unpublished letters by S. R. Mallory, secretary of the confederate navy in 1861, and by Richard Henry Lee, in 1782. "Francis Marion's Grave," "The Declaration of Independence," and "A trip from New York to Niagra in 1829," are among the other contributions...
Never more popular and prosperous than to-day, the Magazine of American History opens its nineteenth volume with a wonderfully interesting January number. The opening article, "Thurlow Weed's Home in New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is a highly interesting paper richly illustrated with exterior and interior news of the house. The description of the house and its distinguished occupant is very graphic, and Mr. Weed's wonderful experience in France at a critical period during our Civil war is charmingly told. The writer's simple and easy style only serves...
...game has successfully passed the unnecessary and undeserving crisis to which it has been unnaturally forced by the misrepresentations due partly to the other unasignable causes. The game demands many manly qualities, teaches self possession, courage and manliness; and so, like the great English University boat races, may it prosper...