Word: combativity
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...actual industrial organization in the United States is in large measure a dual organization for combat. Its evils are pervasive, chronic, and always at one's very door. This condition ought to prove transitional and temporary, for real public happiness cannot possibly grow...
...conditions are still very far from hopeless. The very fact that our form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright men with high ideals have succeeded. He told how Mr. Low, a practically unknown man, became mayor of Brooklyn twice, although the city was normally of the opposite political...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has now done what it can to combat the great evil of too late entrance upon the professional careers or the business career. It has expressed its preference for the age of eighteen as the age for entering college, and its conviction that boys can be well prepared for college by that age, and it has made it possible for any diligent student to get the degree...
Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall tonight: 1. March, "Ameer" Herbert. 2. Overture, "Tabasco" Chadwick. 3. Waltz, "Lagunen" Strauss. 4. Selection, "Robin Hood" DeKoven. 5. Avant Le Combat, Palfy. 6. Hu garian Rhapsody, Liszt. 7. Spring Song, Mendelssohn. 8. Academic Festival Overture, Grace. 9. Selection, "Florodora" Stuart. 10. Waltz, "The Wave" Metra. 11. Polka, "Hunter's Yarn" Komzak. 12. March, "Wien bleibt Wien" Schrammel...
...with the same splendidly equipped company, as when seen at this popular play house last season. The latest stage effects and the highest spectacular results of modern scenic art will again be displayed. With true love that runs roughly for its theme, and war, murder, bomb explosion, broadsword combat, fox hunting with English thoroughbreds and fox hounds, and similar realistic features to enliven a sensational plot "Humanity" is unquestionably one of the strongest melodramas on the American stage...