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...power of faith over the lack of it,--that is the vital seed from which, under the strong, sure treatment of Augustus Thomas, springs a drama of race and religion, of prejudice and sacrifice, of hate that would blight and love that can and will save and atone. This drama, the noblest and most intensely provocative of hard thinking that Boston has seen for many days, is called "As a Man Thinks". Into an apparently hopeless turmoil of sin and mental suffering which comes from the faithlessness of a husband and his suspicion of the faithlessness of his wife, into...
This was the state of affairs in 1845. Then came the blight upon the potato and millions found themselves face to face with starvation, and families died along the roadside by thousands. The famine was followed by the plague, and then came almost the worst calamity of the three. The landlord himself was almost starving and had grown poor, consequently he raised the rent and evicted those who could not pay. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned from their farms...
Again, in 1879, there was a threatened repetition of these horrors. There was a partial blight and many evictions followed. It was then that the Land League was formed by the peasants to try and better conditions. The next year Mr. Gladstone turned his attention to the land troubles and secured temporary relief, by the passage of a bill, until in 1885 the great Land Purchase Act was passed. This measure provided that after the landlord and tenant had agreed upon a fair price for the land they should jointly apply to the state which gave the purchase money...
Frank Rodney Pleasonton '06, of Philadelphia, four, prepared for College at Blight's School. In his Freshman year he stroked his class crew. Age, 20; height, 6 ft. 2 in.; weight, 174 pounds...
...Omit "Last day for receiving applications for the Blight and Bigelow scholarships." p. 82. Under Mathematics E omit "not given in 189-91." p. 1433. Seventh line, for "price 30 cents each" read "price 40 cents each." p. 148. Admission examinations will be held in June, 1891, in South borough, in the rooms of St. Mark's School; in Worcester. in Curtis Hall, Y. M. C. A. building, Elm St; in Cleveland, in the Central High School building; in Minneapolis, in the Lecture room of the Public Library building; in San Francisco, in the building of the Mechanics Institute Library...