Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their sons to these institutions; therefore a system of public schools became absolutely necessary and was accepted with eagerness. For teachers, their most eminent men, beginning with General Lee, stepped forward, while even the women did their full share. Partly by aid given them from the North, but more through their own determination and perseverance the South gradually developed for itself a great public school system...
...interests are hibernating it would certainly not be amiss for the body of students to turn their unoccupied loyalty and enthusiasm to these contests, more distinctly academic in their nature and apparently more suited to Harvard's peculiar talents than athletics. Why should our representatives in these events not share in the glory of champions in the University, and more general interest on the part of students meet the growing interest of the public in the contests where for the time being brain is as important as brawn...
When we try to estimate and fathom life, we at once see some prominent qualities which all life possesses. The first is the necessity for universal labor. To every human being is allotted a certain amount of work. If one person fails to perform his share, it falls to the portion of some other man to do, in addition to his own. There are no lands or peoples free from this inexorable condition of toil...
...Germany got her enormous carrying trade and encouraged ship-building by allowing free registry of British-built ships: Free Ships 23.- (e) England maintained her supremacy at a critical time by allowing our clippers free registry: Question of Ships.- (f) Free ships would give our own people a large share in our carrying trade which was 200,000,000 in 1892: N. A. R. 154:357 (March '92).- (1) Our officers and sailors can man ships as well and as cheaply as any others: Ibid.- (x) Our maritime success in the fifties was obtained when the difference in wages...
...been arranged by the football management to have one man in every Harvard section to lead the cheering tomorrow. This plan should ensure frequent and concerted cheering from beginning to end of the game, and, provided that every Harvard man present does his share, should do a great deal towards keeping up the spirit and energy of the play...