Word: friends
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more men would see the games, and would be drawn into participating, especially in sports like track, lacrosse, and basketball, which can use men of almost any weight and build; (5) the managers, relieved of worry about subscriptions, could enormously increase the number of men in active competition. Even...
...clothing collections committee collected six cases of clothing and ten cases of books and magazines last spring and eight cases of clothing and nine cases of books this fall, which have been sent to the following institutions: Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Cambridge Associated Charities; Morgan Memorial, Boston; Seaman's Friend Society, Boston; St. Mary's Mission for Sailors, East Boston; Cambridge Hospital; Holy Ghost Hospital, Cambridge; George, Jr., Republic, Freeville, N. Y.; Salvation Army, Boston; City Prison, New York; and to various lighthouses, life-saving stations, and city mission houses...
...Forty years ago today the Boston Daily Advertiser contained some verses addressed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on his birthday. They were signed with the initials of his neighbor, friend and brother poet, Lowell. The second stanza read as follows...
...church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga...
...fall. Over half a ton of clothing of all sorts, besides a ton and a quarter of books and magazines, have been received. Cases of clothing will be sent to the following charities and institutions: Cambridge Associated Charities; City Prison, New York; Morgan Memorial, Boston; Seaman's Friend Society, Boston; Spring Street Neighborhood House, New York City; St. James Parish House, North Cambridge; St. Vincent de Paul, South Boston; Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Mississippi; and in smaller cases to many individuals recommended by charitable institutions. The books and magazines were distributed among the following institutions: East...