Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...association separated from the Pierian Sodality as the students showed very little interest in it, and took rooms in Boston. The society tried to keep up the interest in music at Harvard, and it was largely through its influence that a professor of music was appointed. After the war the association took charge of the Symphony Concerts and managed them very successfully for seventeen years...
...system of free competition we have today is essentially a system of war, and it produces in men the qualities of solidness. Some of the leaders in industry have all the courage of action, alertness of stategy, and farsightedness in planning, that great commanders in war possess; but, as truly, some of the leaders are thoroughly unscrupulous, with nerves and consciences equally hardened. Indeed if a successful financier is a man of light character, it is more accident than a natural result of the standard of trade. And beyond this, the masses are sifted down, made machines of, told...
...instructor in military tactics has been furnished by the War Department for Brown University...
...Political interference causes the deterioration of the public service - (a) Good men repelled, poor men attracted: Nation June 6, 1889. Bryce, Chap. 58; - (b) Conversion of public service into mere place hunting; Nation June 6, 1889. - (c) Condition of War Dept. Nov. 1892 - (d) Absence of cabinet officers in the late Campaign...
...Hamburg" and Mr. William H. Rideing writes of "A Recent Visit to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden." An entertaining and very interesting sketch of "Art Schools of Paris' is contributed by Miss Lucy Hooper. Archibald Forbes tells the story of the Fall of Constantinople as it appeared to a war correspondent and Mr. George W. Cable speaks of "Education, for the Common People in the South...