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...explained that in the story Pedro's father, Alfonso the twelfth of Castle, had abandoned his wife and his child for another woman, and that Pedro had grown up in extreme poverty. The latent good in Pedro's character, especially during his formative years, was crushed by the revengeful temper of his mother, and the mean circumstances in which he was placed. The drama shows the great influence of Maria de Pedillia over Pedro, and his reaction...
...present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered in a great spoon after every meal, a green-glooming fluid in a sticky bottle?Cod-liver Oil. This ob- noxious tonic possesses many...
Fever, Sweating, temper, sensitiveness...
...would seriously submit for undergraduate consideration the question whether, from the point of view of their own ultimate good, there has not been a too complete disappearance, from the college curriculum and from college life, of compulsion and of requirements, rigorous and even irksome, if you will, which temper the mind and test the souls of men!" At Amherst, Mass., Amherst College entered upon its 104th year with John Coolidge, son of President Calvin Coolidge, one of 210 freshmen with a few words from Acting President and President-elect George D. Olds, concerning changes in Amherst's faculty, curriculum...
...automobile has been blamed for much. Accused of corrupting the manners and temper of the American people it spitefully waxes fat with comfort and luxury. But while it may stupidly ignore the choice oaths of two score languages, it must bitterly resent the statements of Mr. Ramiro De Maezter...