Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deeply felt by us, not only because he was a graduate of the college but because, in his capacity of University Preacher, he has been so closely connected with us For many years he served upon our Board of Preachers until the exacting duties of Bishop forced him to break his connection with us. It was much against his wish that he did so, and he hoped at the time, when he grew more familiar with his work as Bishop, that he could return to us, if not to conduct prayers at least to preach on occasional Sunday evenings...
Perhaps, the most disappointing feature of this disappointing number is "A Mistake of the Bishops" by Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...
...representative teams from those cities. The trip will begin on December 18, when the 'varsity team will leave for Richmond, where they play their first game. The following games will extend through two weeks, until the last date in New Orleans, when the team will return home and break training for the year. This winter tour has two main objects. In the first place, it is a slight recognition on the part of the University of the unusually successful labors of the team during the past season. It will also serve the purpose of bringing the university more immediately before...
...covered the distance of about eight miles in one hour. The trail lay through Norton's woods and Somerville, down Prospect street, over the Brookline street bridge to Boston, across the sand pits to Harvard street, through Aliston, down Boylston street where a profusion of paper signaled the break. The hounds arrived fifteen minutes after the hares in the following order: J. O. Nichols L. S., R. T. Fox '94 and J. W. Shereschewsky '95. The full particulars of the cross-country run will be announced in Monday's issue...
...days become shorter and the weather colder the older members of the University begin to look forward with pleasant anticipation to the vesper services. These services, coming as they do on Thursdays at 5 o'clock, an hour convenient for most members of the university make a pleasant break in the week, and afford an opportunity for the common worship of our Creator, a worship which as Dr. Donald so apply said, we all feel the need of simply because we are human beings...