Word: true
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poverty are too complicated for interference, and that competition will work everything out in time. The poor are not suffering for their own vices and sins, but for ours. We are responsible, and it is the duty of each of us to help where we can. It is true that the statistics of Political Economy are beyond our control, but the dynamics are in our power. As Mill said, the moral forces of Political Economy are now coming to the front...
...experience that a nine with scientific coaching can make more progress while the frost is coming out of the ground than any untrained team can make in an eternal summer of practice. It is the beginning which counts and is so vital to base-ball, and this is especially true of a college nine, for development must needs be very rapid...
...Lawrence then made a short address, pointing out that the value of the Christian church is not in the fact that it acts often as a sort of moral police, but rather because its true object is to bring to light the truth. The church has more than once adopted the spirit of condemnation and has failed; the spirit of approval of things that are excellent can alone give permanent strength to Christian organization. The service closed with the singing of Pflenger's anthem, "How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord...
...True Idea of a Liberal Education...
...books during the day, accom plishes its purpose indifferently. Necessary as it is, the rule requiring the books to be returned by 9 o'clock makes it at times a real bore to take out a reserved book-so much so, in fact, that many men who have a true desire to study are unwilling to take the trouble of borrowing from the reserved shelves. For men like these, as well as for those who, though willing to take upon themselves the anxiety of returning borrowed books, feel, nevertheless, the inconvenience of the system, it seems as if something ought...