Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Freshman Library was first established, the books were housed in McKinlock Hall. Soon, however, it was displaced by a dining hall and common room for the Freshmen there, and the present building, then standing on Holyoke Street, was renovated to make room for the homeless library. It is this same building which now stands in the spot near Standish...
...banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates she asked him to inscribe the words in her autograph book. He did so, composed the two special stanzas, concluded: "I have added a few words more, addressed...
...flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
...Thus we put before these Minnesota men three different causes, all equally worthy of their contribution, and waited to see what would be the result of our various appeals without much doubt, however, as to the final outcome. Needless to say, while the cause of the homeless Michigan students was better supported than that of the foreigners, the subscriptions for the German book of diagrams which could be used to personal advantage only, were vastly greater than those for either of the other causes. Thus we proved that as social distance increases, readiness to help others decreases, while...
...first the Holy Father would not take it, but Cardinal Dubois gently proffered the sum a second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions that it be used to relieve Catholic priests in Mexico, many of whom are homeless and impoverished due to the suppressive measures of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil (TIME, March 4 et ante...