Word: boons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sixth of the membership of the club, who must have lived abroad for two years and must be able to speak two languages fluently. Each nationality has its representative who acts as an informal consul in matters affecting the students from his own country. The club is proving a boon to the foreigners at Michigan, who find in it an organization upon which they can rely for help. And to the "clubable" spirits among them, very seldom admitted to other clubs or fraternities, it offers a pleasant and helpful social centre. A similar club at Cornell has been very successful...
...with equal tenderness and respect, and as one after another, worn out with work or by the hard blows of life, drops, we close up the ranks, and drawing nearer to each other, we move on. It is the record of deep mutual trust and friendship, and such a boon we would pass...
...would be a great boon if a Pastoral History of the Church could be written. It would exhibit the Church in its most attractive and beneficent light, engaged in doing good instead of being a scene of conflict. Chaucer's description of the Parish Priest, supposed to be modelled on Wycliffe, may be taken as a kind of type of the Pastor...
...first number of the Advocate to be issued by the 1901 board gives promise of a successful year. In some way the editors have obtained stories from new men, and the result is decidedly refreshing. New writers are the greatest boon a paper such as the Advocate can receive, and it is to be hoped that the coming year will produce more originality of plot and novelty of treatment than have been shown of late years...