Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Whitman M. Chandler, right field, Jamaica Plain, 19 years old, weighs 130 pounds and played second base at the Roxbury Latin School for two years...
Bartlett H. Hayes, short-stop and captain, Jamaica Plain, was pitcher and captain of the Roxbury Latin School team, is 19 years old and weighs 147 pounds...
...wish to speak of oratory and acting, which reminds me of a time that I visited a little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books...
...freshman musical clubs gave the first of their three concerts in Jamaica Plain. E. M. Waterhouse and J. W. Edmunds were the soloists for the Glee Club. The Banjo Club was especially well received, and was one of the best features of the concert. After the concert a dance was given, the music being furnished by Gott's orchestra. The next concert will be given at Dorchester...
...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...