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...head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make the salvation of his suffering fellow creatures his life work, and here in this dark district of London, where the light of God had never penetrated, be found his field of labor...
...turn away in disgust and think we have done with him. Yet the tramp is still a man; he can feel cold and the gnawing pangs of hunger; he is still suffering and in need of sympathy. There are three classes of people whom the Salvation Army means to labor for. The first is the destitute, hungry and distressed; those who are forced from poverty to live in the slums. The second is the vicious and drunken class. We should give to these certainly as much sympathy as we would give to a fallen animal. If a horse falls...
...debating club of the Prospect Union, to be held in Sever 11, March 15. There will be three disputants on each side, each of whom will speak for twelve minutes. One speaker on each side will then be allowed six minutes to close. The subject is: "Resolved, That labor organizations are prejudicial to the best interests of workingmen." The Harvard Union will have the affirmative...
Best general references: Fifth Special Report of U. S. Commissioners of Labor, 198-236; Forum, XIV, 514-527 (Nov-1892); New Eng. Mag. XI, 785-797 (Feb. '95); E. L. Fanshawe, Liquor Legislation in U. S. and Canada...
...work. His special department was Sanskrit. He was one of the most prominent members of the Oriental Society and of the American Philological Society, of both of which he was president. His genius is plain to all who see through his works the versatility of mind and capacity for labor which they reveal. Dr. Whitney's crowning achievement as a scholar was his Sanskrit grammar, though to the great body of his countrymen the Century Dictionary is his greatest monument...