Word: careers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...risk of being old-fashioned and out of date, I believe in treating age with the utmost respect and kindness. To my eyes there is no more noble and venerable sight than an honest, earnest lover and benefactor of his race, the last years of whose earthly career are soothed and sustained by the hearty love and veneration of his fellow-beings. A man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, is a hero whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever. Such...
...season is now advancing, and the football men are settling down to their work in preparation for the spring matches, it may be well at this time to look back upon their achievements in the past and consider their claims upon us for support in the career which they hope to enter upon...
...foam that mark the shallop's mad career...
Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...
...gloominess of that excellent paper, which has so strong a fancy for looking at the dark side of a picture. This is very unfortunate, for it is mournful to think of the future of a country whose educated men, before they begin life, look upon the best political career as an endless struggle against corruption and ignorance. On this account, and from their lack of training for public life, very few of our number ever think of entering politics as a profession...