Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lathrop then spoke of the training and of the good it would do men even if they did not make the team. On account of the increasing number of candidates there will be several special coaches this year for some of the events. These will coach the men particularly on style...
George Herbert, he said, on account of his ardent piety was early destined to service in the church. For this purpose he was sent to Westminister School at London, and from there to Trinity College in Cambridge. Ordinarily he would have immediately prepared for the priesthood, but his desire for honor still kept him at Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke...
...Fenn, who was to have conducted services in Appleton Chapel from Dec. 6 to 17, has been unable to do so on account of sickness. On the trip from Chicago, he was attacked with bronchial trouble and was obliged to remain in the hospital during his entire stay in Cambridge. Mr. Fenn was one of the strongest preachers on the staff last year and his inability to serve is much regretted. He will, however come again in March and no change in preachers will be necessitated...
Last evening for the first time the Pierian Sodality gave its annual fall concert in Sanders Theatre alone. The audience was large and enthusiastic. The programme was long and on that account the orchestra gave no encores. E. M. Waterhouse's songs were received with great applause...
...possible 420 votes, 397 or 95 per cent. were cast in the Senior election yesterday. Hardly as much consistency as might have been expected was shown in the preparation of the ballots, but the tellers rejected no ballots whatever on account of irregular marking, and wherever it was at all possible to determine the elector's intention, credit was given...