Word: saxonizes
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...sentenced was because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...president of the Harvard Total Abstinence League. Mr. Cook began by comparing the prohibition question to the old slavery issue, and said he hoped that his hearers would live to seethe liquor traffic declared an outlaw thoughout the civilized world. The temperance movement takes root easily in the Anglo-Saxon nature. For the love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should do our share to further the cause. The lecturer then discussed the educational and political aspect of the prohibition movement. Life insurance companies take cognizance of a man's habits...
...serve as an introduction to a study of French art - surely a fine art - in literature; and not only ought those attend who wish merely to get a sketch of French literature, or an introduction to it, but those, too, who would have a knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose of the present...
...that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office of an instructor on a salary less than that paid to an ordinary butler at the West End. So at Harvard our young men can study Sanscrit or Anglo Saxon, but get no training in the queen of arts, public oratory. By consequence, Harvard men when they go on the stump or platform generally show breeding and culture, and an amazing absence of oratorical power...
...their electives. No college in the United States offers so many advantages in this department as Harvard does. In the first place, there are seven different courses for the study of the literature alone, covering periods in the English world of letters from the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to the present day. The courses are so arranged that one may begin at whatever period he likes and study the growth of literature historically. Prof. Child has five courses (1, 2, 3, 4 and 11) covering the periods from the beginning down to Shakespeare's time. Prof...