Word: come
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...history of the College papers for the last thirty years or so shows a curious tendency for the periods of most vigorous blossoming to come about ten years apart: there was the time of '76-'77 in which the Lampoon was shot forth on its joyous way, the time of '86-'87 in which the Monthly was launched with high hopes and ambitions, and the time of '95-'96 in which again there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature...
...clock for work in the Gymnasium, continuing to the Christmas recess. Mr. Graham will be present every day to give the men such training and instruction as they may need. Everyone who is intending to try for these events in the spring, is strongly urged to come out and get this early training. The men will be divided into squads to meet from 3 to 5 o'clock, the shot-putters Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the high-jumpers and pole-vaulters on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays...
...assist at the East End Christian Union, at the Francis E. Willard Settlement, at Dennison House, the Civic Service House and other settlements in Boston. On T. Wharf, at the foot of Atlantic Avenue, the Association superintends a reading-room for the fishermen and sailors who come into Boston harbor, and several Harvard men by giving there monthly entertainments and smokers keep in touch with the life about the wharves. About 800 fishermen have their mail addressed to the reading-room, and from 25 to 150 men frequent it daily. Anyone who knows the peculiar temptation of the saloon...
Several men are acting in the industrial and religious work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. About twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house...
...choose a University team will be made until the practice is held on the Holmes. Field rink, which should be ready for used the latter part of this week. Of the members of last years team who are in the University, Clothier, Macleod and Carr have not yet come out for practice...