Word: purer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invitation of Brown University, delegates from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown met in Providence Friday and Saturday for an informal conference upon the subject of eligibility rules and other questions dealing with purer athletics. Professor W. H. Munroe of Brown was elected president and F. W. Moore of Harvard secretary...
Last night Dr. Coolidge lectured in Sanders Theatre on the situation in Crete and the East. He gave in detail the history of the island, its geographical character and importance as a strategic point at the entrance to the AEgean. Its inhabitants in the main are Greeks, purer Hellenic than those on the mainland...
...tenement district of New York City. Mr. Gilder then spoke on the general subject of public opinion in the United States. He said those who are watching most closely and keenly the trend of events note two tendencies; on the one hand a growth of public interest in purer government; a winning battle for the abolition of the spoils system; a growing independence among voters; a diminution of corruption in Congress; on the other hand, along with all this, a great deal of bribery at the polls; a growing domination of corrupt political machines; an increasing tyranny and recklessness...
...then answered for the negative and dealt some heavy blows at the comparisons of the Union speakers. He argued that the change would prove beneficial from the fact that it would separate national and state interests at elections. He said the affirmative had not proved that legislatures were purer and better than the people...
...society. The old saying that the child is father of the man was never felt to be so true as by those engaged in work among society today. To take a child when young from the midst of a life of vice and degredation, and transplant him to some purer atmosphere where he will grow up under a moral influence is one of the greatest benefits that one can bestow upon society. It may be expensive, but in the end it is economical, for these very children if not turned in the right direction will grow up to swell...