Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first number of the American Historical Review has lately appeared. The form and contents of the number are excellently thought out, and need but little comment. The editorial salutatory has been intrusted to Professor William Sloane, whose theme is "History and Democracy." He argues hopefully from the popularity of histories in this country against the notion that democracy is unfavorable to a high order of productiveness in this branch of belles lettres, or that a temporary exhaustion is manifest...
...half a score of children from a single neighborhood who meet with their visitor once a week to exchange and talk about the books, read, sing, play games, save their pennies, etc. Another young man has visited a bed-ridden child who had been discharged from the hospital, but whose case the hospital doctors wished to follow through a volunteer visitor. Other students have heldped run Boys' Clubs. Another man, preferring religious work, has taken a class in a mission Sundayschool. Still another has given talks to groups of poor children in the Home Libraries, on the lives of some...
...time to the work: these constitute the machinery for responsible action. The advisers and directors are selected on the ground of their acquaintance with charities and their interest in Harvard and its students. The only "plant" is the hospitality of students, professors, college societies, and the University itself, whose doors are thrown open, as occasion may require, for our varied purposes,- the office hours of the director for consultation with students, the committee meetings, the conference of workers, and occasionally a public meeting...
...Herbert Welsh, who is to speak in the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow night, is a man whose influence is weighty upon the side of "good government." He is Secretary of the Indian Rights Association, which is formed to protect the Indians from the cupidity and rapacity of officials as well as settlers in the vicinity of the reservations. He is editor of "City and State," a weekly publication in Philadelphia, which is doing up-hill but much needed work in exposing the unbusinesslike methods of the city government. In this paper the various departments of the city are canvassed unsparingly...
...death of Bates the class has lost one of its best known members, and the sense of keen personal loss which its members feel is increased by the knowledge that the class has been deprived of one whose energy, ability and courage seemed certain to bring honors to both himself and his class. His career at Harvard was marked throughout by a lively interest in the things which would tend to advance the welfare of his class and the College...