Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Ferguson, a rugged old Iris farmer with pure faith in the Biblical doctrine of "turn the other cheek, awaits the destiny which God has is store for him. Neither the impending loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken...
Five books by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 comprise the fourth section of the catalogue. These are discussions of English Literature from Chaucer through Shakespere, with a digression in the form of a book on "The Old Farmer and His Almanack." The literature of countries other than England is considered in the group headed "Belles-Lettres." A book that has just been put on sale is "Kostes Palamas! Life Immovable," a translation by Aristides E. Phoutrides '11, a former instructor at the University...
...loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known hill in his neighborhood with you to show you the way, and you may discover he has never set foot before on its premises...
...article on a lavish scale, as the society columns of nearly all our daily organs of democratic opinion so eloquently testify. But there cannot be a king without snobbery. Not even the meagerest German princeling, fourth in line of succession to a reline for which no average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give three gasps, two flops and expire. To talk about a democratic king is to talk the sheerest nonsense. There could...
Does the cautious Vermont farmer prefer the safety of hoarding his wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...