Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Nielson has an especially fine voice, particularly in pianissimo passages, where the tones are exquisitely sustained, while Mr. Hackett possesses a voice of large and pure tenor quality. Tickets for the concert may be obtained at the Columbus Day Nursery and home of the Cambridge Council, No. 74, R. or C., every evening from 7 till...
...road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless students comes to be regarded as pure callousness...
Socrates was no liberal. He opposed a city; refused to conciliate; and died an irreconcilable, who obeyed his own daemonia but not that of the sovereign people. The real liberal of ancient times was the great Apostle, who took pure Christianity and mixed it with the dirt of slavery and a corrupt social order and made a going thing...
...doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages more easily than mathematics, and therefore recommends early specialization, he does not provide for the man whose mind is not adapted to book-learning...
...that nearly half the Harvard delegation was obliged to leave at about the middle of the conference, when there was some feeling of disappointment and dissatisfaction. Those, however, who had hoped for a broader discussion, could not help recognizing that the foreign mission work as now conducted--in which pure proselyting is far less emphasized than formerly--has very decided social and international implications--for example, the education of the Mexican peons. Again, the convention, including as it did representatives of most of the Protestant denominations, was free entirely from the suspicion of sectarianism, and was narrow only...