Word: calls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Arrangements have been made for a Harvard dinner in Detroit early in February. About twenty names have been signed to the call, and a letter has been received from President Eliot promising that the representative of the faculty who goes to the Chicago dinner will stop over in Detroit. Any person who has been connected with any of the departments of Harvard University will be welcomed to the dinner...
Columbia College has already followed Harvard's excellent example, and has taken a step or two in the right direction, as the Columbia faculty is also of the opinion that a call for courses in electrical engineering will soon be made...
...91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached a short sermon, basing his remarks upon the 19th and 20th verses of the twenty-first chapter of John, Jesus' seeming rebuke to Peter for his hesitation. Peter's hesitation and apparent wish to yield to another the responsibility of the call "Follow Me" probably arose from a sense of his own intellectual and morality incapacity. Thus it is with us. When we are called to the performance of some sacred duty, we first turn to the examination of self, and find that we have few of the qualities for a successful leader...
About twenty-five men answered the call for a lacrosse club meeting. Mr. E. S. Griffing resigned the offices of president of the association and captain of the eleven. A new election of officers thus took place, at which H. H. Haskell was elected president; S. H. Thorndike, vice-president; R. G. Loring, secretary. L. S. Griswold was chosen captain of the team...
Under "Topics of the Day" there are two short sketches-"Moods and Music," and "At the Harvard Assembly." The first savours of that quality which the examiners of freshman third hour themes call "fine writing;" the second is a lively description of an assembly as seen through the eyes of a "solemn, disgruntled little...