Word: groups
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Most reform movements are started by groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though...
...gave rise to the Parnassian School. Their work was made more difficult by the growing strength of the prose realism with its Stendhals, Balzacs, Daudets and Zolas. Nothing was more natural than that they should be conservative and pay much attention to verse form. The leading members of this group are Coppee, Anatole France, Sully, Prudhomme, Heredia, Sylvestre and Leon Dierk...
...very important that all the questions be answered, in order to make the statistics of the class complete. The lives are private, and are used only by the secretary in making up his report. The individual lives are not published in any way other than as a group of statistics. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...
...very important that all the questions be answered, in order to make the statistics of the class complete. The lives are private, and are used only by the secretary in making up his report. The individual lives are not published in any way other than as a group of statistics. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...
...make occasional reports. The Home Libraries, which are connected with the Children's Aid Society, are distributed in batches of twenty books throughout the tenement districts, for the use of children. It is the duty of the man who undertakes this work to meet the children in his group once a week, and to comment on their reading. The work upon which the most emphasis is laid this year by the committee is connected with the Boys Club. A number of boys in Boston are formed into a club, and two or three men are put in charge...