Word: farmers
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...fair way to do it. Aubrey tells us he was in the habit of making a yearly sojourn among his old neighbors at Stratford, and we know that he was buying land there, adding to his acres almost with every visit, raising crops as an amateur farmer, and even entering a suit against one Philip Rogers because he had not paid the ambitious farmer for some grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford...
This little book comprises the four lectures given at Harvard by Prof. Thompson last year; I. General Principles. The Farmer. II. The Evidence of History. III. The Workingman. IV. Answers to Objections. The writer takes as the basis of his fundamental arguments the principle that commerce should be as little hampered as possible. From this he gives the teachings of the modern school of Protectionists. "The Evidence of History' is interesting in comparison with the work of Prof. Dunbar in the same line. The eloquence of the speaker is necessary to give force to the subject matter of the lecture...
...team. Casey (anchor),- Harding, McInnis, Williams. Harvard '86 team, Dewey (anchor),- Codman, Adams, Churchill. M. I. T. team,- Fletcher, Garfield, Smith, Farmer. Harvard, '86, defeated the M. I. T. team, but was pulled in the final heat by the Association team...
...shall abide in it forever. That there are college weaklings, as there are weaklings everywhere, is not to be denied; but it is the purpose and mission of the true college to add 'strength to strength.' Its graduate is to be a wider man, of deeper resource; if a farmer, a better farmer, at all events a better citizen and a better man. So far as this result is not produced, it is the fault of the man himself, of training that is bad instead of good, or of the social and political conditions into which he emerges...
...Chas. E. Farmer, in arguing the superior merits of volleying over base line play in lawn tennis, says: "I quite admit, that when you are on the backline you can hit "with all your force," and keep the ball in court, but how often in a game are you making strokes from the back-line? Perhaps not one in six. Of course, the aim of all good players is to deep their adversaries on the back-line, but how often does anyone do it in the course of a rally? I have frequently had the pleasure of witnessing Messrs. Lawford...