Word: callings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were kept in training in one way or another, gaps would be easily supplied with men at any rate seasoned by long practice, if they had no other valuable qualities. The higher the training of the college at large, the less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools...
...Department of Historical and Political Science, and not to the undergraduate, which is a subordinate feature. In 1879 Dr. H. C. Adams (fellow in political economy, Johns Hopkins, 1876-8) was appointed instructor in political economy. He retained the position, however, for only one year, accepting in 1880 a call to the University of Michigan, where he is now the professor of political economy. His place was soon filled. In the fall of 1880, at the earnest recommendation of President Andrew D. White and others, Dr. Ely was appointed lecturer in political economy. In 1881 Dr. Scott resigned to take...
37Students will save money by having their furniture repaired and upholstered at my store during this and next week. Wishing to keep my workmen busy I make special figures which are a great reduction from regular prices. Call and see me personally. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St., Read's Block...
...Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention...
...Yale student of to-day to be? I answer, just what the Yale men of the past have been. He should be a man whose prime quality only and foundation of character is manliness, the sense of duty so all controlling that he is reacy for duty's call whenever and wherever it comes to him. That manly sense of obligation to God and men which puts work before pleasure and inspires the soul to meet with a spirit of a conqueror what is distasteful...