Word: brotherhood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion of the two arts. Nathan the Wise, though written in five months, was in one sense Lessing's life work, for it embodied his views on religion and preached that universal brotherhood in which he so firmly believed. Each of his great dramatic works had its own moral to teach. The characters were well sustained, and true to nature. Inestimable, however, as was the value of Lessing's work to the development of German literature, it is for the man's character...
...meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening, the following officers were elected: President, A. D. Hodges, '89; vice-president, R. DeC. Ward, '89; secretary, George Rublee, '90; treasurer, C. G Page, '90; librarian, A. V. Woodworth, '90. A paper from the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at St. George's Church, New York, was read, in which the St. Paul Society was invited to send delegates to a conference to be held in New York for the purpose of deciding upon the best mode of promoting Christianity in our schools and colleges. The society decided not to send delegates...
Question: "Resolved, That the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has promoted the best interests of its members and of the community." Principal disputants-Affirmative: J. M. Shahan and H. W. Hervey. Negative: F. B's. Williams and C. DeV. Musaus. Open to all students of the University...
...brotherhood has not promoted the interests of its members, since (a) its action has tended to decrease rather than increase the net reward of their labor: Report Mass. R. R. Commission for 1887 on B. and M. strike; daily papers on C., B. and Q. strike (March-April, 1888), especially Boston Herald, March 18, 1888; (b) its educational effect is nil; (c) it incites to violence: Report of Sec. of State of Penn., on the riot of 1877; Boston Globe for March 30, 31; Post, April 3; Herald, April...
...brotherhood does not benefit the community, since (a) by its action commerce is obstructed: Boston Herald, March 8; Nation, March 8, 1888. (b) And property destroyed. The object of the order is selfish: Taussig, South-Western Strike, Quarterly Journal of Economics...