Word: commons
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...poverty was much greater than we have yet attained, but that he never wished his followers to be revolutionists. Second, how far are his words to be taken literally? To this we reply that they must be applied according to our advancing knowledge and with the use of our common sense...
...Church of Christ is more democratic and practical than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates but also of men and women of every rank who in their own work in in the world are trying to advance Christ's kingdom. Men must not secularize common work. Literature, science, commerce, business, those all stand under the pale of religion, and men of business and of the world, though they be of varying creeds, are parts of Chrait's one Catholic Church if they are trying to better society and influence...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold an open handicap cross country run on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 3.30. The course will be from the B. A. A. club house through Exeter street, Common- wealth avenue and Beacon street to Coolidge's corner, around the switch and back to the Club house by the same road, a distance of about four and three quarters miles. Checkers will be posted at different points, and any competitor failing to have his number on the checkers list will be disqualified. Prizes will be given to the first six men, and an extra prize...
...great desideratum of statisticians is some common method for presentation and tabulation of figures which can be used everywhere. In this way only can an exact comparison of wages be made. For purely economic purposes use can be made of "positions"--that is, using as a theoretic unit the laborer who works at standard wages for a standard length of time. For social purposes however, there can be no theory in the compilation of figures and we must consider the number of laborers and their time of labor strictly according to truth. When some uniform system has been used...
...will; the other follows the intelligent guidance of successful men of affairs. One is the party of ideas and ideals, the party of liberty; the other is the party of practical achievement, the party of authority and order. Aspiration and Utopianism against purpose and opportunism, genius and eccentricity against common sense and self-interest, the universal and the visionary against the practical and the questionable, the kingdom of the air against the kingdom of the earth,--such I conceive to be the perpetual antagonism of parties; and the great lines of battle, now straight and clear, now twisted by lesser...