Word: sought
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to hear Professor W. R. Harper of Yale University. Professor Harper took for his subject the Literary Study of the English Bible. He impressed his audience with the fact that although we are living in an age when everything new is most sought for and the old ridiculed. yet the old ought not be lost sight of. Just as the literature of the ancients and their philosophy is being studied to bring out the new that is in the old, so must the Bible be studied to bring out new truths and impress...
...speaker deprecated the interference of Northern mugwumps in the Southern negro question for he thought that, when the mugwump left his free trade theories and sought to solve the negro question he was walking on unfamiliar ground. In conclnsion, Mr. Hallowell said the negro question onght not be considered as a race question but as a national question in which every true American ought to take an interest...