Word: truth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seeking popular favor has been keener than ever before. Many have had their little day of sunshine; few have outlived a single short summer; but all this while there has been no change in the hold of Longfellow on the hearts of men, and today bears witness to the truth of Lowell's prophecy that the next age should double the praise that his own had lavished on the poet...
...obvious truth in regard to the poems of Longfellow, that while they would have been of value at any time and place, their worth towards the foundation of the literature of a new world was priceless. The first need for creating such a literature in America was, no doubt, a great original thinker such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary...
...reaped as we sowed. Twenty-five years ago, Jules Simon, addressing his countrymen, described the crop with great exactness: "Where the home is smothered in a nation, there go with it family, manhood, citizenship, patriotism." New York was long ago, with far too much truth, called "the homeless city...
...Shulamite" is Deborah Krillet, the young wife of a sternly religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future...
...expressed by Mr. Rhodes in his will, regard will be had, in the election of a student to a Scholarship, to: the candidate's literary and scholastic attainments, his fondness for and success in manly out-door sports, such as cricket, football and the like, his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship, and finally for his exhibition during schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...