Word: calling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Allow me as an old graduate and as the first president of the Colonial Club to call attention to the value of that club's experience upon the selection of a site for the proposed Harvard Union...
Since the first call for candidates for the class teams in the early part of January, practice has been held every day when the weather permitted, and very fast teams have been formed as a result. Of the candidates who came out for their teams there were about ten Seniors, fifteen Juniors, twenty Sophomores and forty Freshmen. Drawings placed the two upper and the two lower classes together respectively. The first two games between the Seniors and the Juniors were won by the Seniors by scores of 2 to 1 and 3 to 1. The games between the Sophomores...
...Gordon of Boston, said that it seemed strange to call the attention of any Harvard man to the great figure of Phillips Brooks. In speaking of the man as a preacher, it is worthy of note that Bishop Brooks was disappointing to one who heard him for the first time. This dissatisfaction was due to the vagueness of what he said and the rapidity with which he talked. "When I am interesting," he said once, "I am vague, when I am definite, I am dull." When he came into the University the cry went up that the pulpit had lost...
...call for candidates will be made in the next two weeks. The first class is already at work in response to a call made a week ago when 120 freshmen came out for their class crew. Of last year's university crew the following men are in college: Allen, Brown, Williams, Neidecken and Wickes; substitutes, Mitchell, Brock, Cameron, Patterson and Cross...
Permit me to call your attention to the portrait, in crayon, of Phillips Brooks which is now in Mr. Olsson's window on Harvard square. It is the work of Mr. Lowes Dickenson of London, Eng., who stands second to nonliving artist in crayon portraiture, in England at the present time. It will on Saturday be hung in Phillips Brooks House and remain there during the dedication, and perhaps longer. Old friends of Bishop Brooks have pronounced it be the most truthful likeness yet made. Seven years have now passed since he died and no student in the university...