Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaker then spoke of Mr. John Gay who went to the Hebrides and on whose grave after he died was the following epitaph: "When he came to the Island there were no Christians, when he died there were no heathens." In conclusion he urged upon as many of his audience as could, to become missionaries for they would never regret...
...specimens of literature. This system practically makes wide reading an impossibility. A student has but little time for outside work, and thus graduates even with honors in classics, without having read one half of the Greek drama. Consequently he finds himself far behind English or German young men whose range of reading is enough to discourage the most energetic American student. This explains why lovers of Greek and Latin even yet invariably turn to the scientific side of the language, why foreign poets, critics, essayists and novelists know so much more about the classics than American writers, and why William...
...remedy seems easy to find in the establishment of courses in which an enormous amount of reading is done and the placing of such courses in charge of scholars whose tastes are literary as well as scientific. The number of students who would continue Latin and Greek longer than they do now would thus be increased, and honor-men would not have the lurking feeling that they are imposing on the world, by being recognized as proficient in languages of which they have not had either time or opportunity to study all the masterpieces. Such a plan would, moreover, increase...
When he moved to Chicago two years later he became the leader of the Ethical Culture Society, whose adlierents believe that morality has a basis of its own, independent of all theological beliefs. Mr. Salter's work as the leader of the society in Chicago has many practical expressions. Through his influence and advocacy the economic councils for the purpose of bringing together the capitalists and laborers in conference were established in the city. As leader of this society in Chicago, Mr. Salter is in constant touch with all social classes. After the trial of the anarchists Mr. Salter, impelled...
...deem necessary, in regard to the use of the boat-house or boats, and have the power to expel from the club or suspend from the use of the boat house for a limited time, any member who shall violate any of the rules made by the committee or whose continuance in the club is injurious to its interests...