Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...What a great opportunity manque was the Harvard Night of the Irving engagement ! Why in the world couldn't the boys have been boys, and given their natural, happy enthusiasm boyish vent ! What an hour it would have been, if when Terry stood there, a radiant vision, kissing her hand in thanks for their applause, they had from all parts of the house showered her with crimson roses, one flung by every boy-Harvard's own colors, breathing in rose-breath Harvard's good will ! - And where was the grand, concentrated Harvard cheer, that should have spoken farewell...
...woman is gracious, who does more than mere duty demands, who is appreciative and lovingly enters into the life of each one whom he or she meets. We are more apt to notice this trait in the child with its subtle charm and winsome ways, "the gracious boy who doth adorn the world into which he is born." Grace is the fairest, the rarest gift of life. We are often content if we are told that we are doing our duty but what would a home be when all did their duty and nothing more, it would be decorus, severe...
Youth, Mr. Camp said is the time when the body receives its greatest development, and much importance should be attached to the means for obtaining the best development of the body that is possible. Exercise then ought to be made a pleasure rather than a duty, both to the boy and to the college man, for after leaving college vigorous exercise is either relaxed or wholly given...
...Copeland will talk to the boys of Williston seminary on Wednesday, February 7, on "The School Boy and the College...
...society this year has been greater than ever before. Services have been conducted by members in different towns on Sundays and so much interest has been taken in the matter that on one Sunday in December five such services were held. Requests have come for men to conduct boy's clubs in Boston and Cambridge, and two more men are wanted by the Associated Charities in Boston to collect the savings of poor people. Another call is for cast-off clothing. A resident member of the Andover House college settlement, W. E. Clark '93, has appealed for aid in this...