Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mechanics Building, Huntington avenue, Boston, this evening at 7 o'clock. Already over 200,000 tickets have been sold for the Bazaar, about 1,300 of which have been sold by members of the University Allied Relief Committee. This is the largest advance sale of tickets for any similar event ever made in this country...
...feeling of the man in the desert who sees the longed-for oasis fade into a mirage is very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time...
Good for Harvard; fine for Harvard, Universities for the most part use up all their time in training lawyers and doctors and preachers and editors and "publicists" and similar classes of useful but not overly productive citizens. If Harvard is really teaching policemen to be better policemen, and will from time to time add branches wherein carpenters are taught to be better carpenters, farmers better farmers, blacksmiths better blacksmiths, tailors better tailors, fishermen better fishermen--if so be Harvard has entered upon a career of wider usefulness to those who really produce the bread and butter which all the people...
...Nobel Prize, is so great as to over-shadow that of his other attainments. He possesses unusual ability as a musician, and also devotes much of his time to the management of a boys' school which he has established in India and is conducting on principles of self-government similar to those of the George Junior Republic. The views of such a many-sided personality are certainly worth listening to, even if they do not coincide with those of our Occidental civilization...
...informal reception to Professor Emily Greene Balch, of Wellesley, in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Balch, who was the American delegate to the "Conference for Continuous Mediation" at Stockholm, has recently conferred with President Wilson upon the advisability of calling a similar conference of neutral nations for the discussion of their mutual interest which the war has jeopardized and for the presentation of a proposal aiming toward a permanent peace...