Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sunday evening Bishop John H. Vincent, of Buffalo, N. Y., gave the last sermon of his winter term as visiting minister to the University. He took as his text, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth." He pictured an avalanche sweeping down a mountain side. Any one standing at the base of the mountain could see the destruction and yet beyond it the clear, blue sky. Such a view of life is afforded by the Bible. The book is not wholly pessimistic, for it sees the blue sky beyond. It is not wholly optimistic...
Fifteen per cent. of the students at Stanford University come from east of the Mississippi...
...Holden Chapel, Mr. Harris, of the Divinity School, spoke on the "Force of Prayer." Mr. Harris said that all the greatest and best things on the earth, the great cathedrals, which are the highest type of architecture, the Bible, which is the highest form of literature, have all come into being, directly or indirectly, through prayer. Everyone feels the need of looking up to some higher being, and this want is satisfied by means of prayer...
...last year's crew W. H. Cameron, A. C. Potter, F. Davis, and R. B. Cook are rowing with the 'varsity. J. L. Stackpole, J. Purdon and S. F. Eddy are not rowing, but will come out later. Of the substitutes, L. J. Ninde has left college, E. B. Lambert is not rowing, and G. Murchie is with the 'varsity...
...come to our notice that many of the students do not know that instructors in the University have regular hours for consultation. The hours for consultation together with the places where instructors may be found are published in the last pages of the official directory issued by the University. Obviously they were put in the directory for a purpose. Unless the instructors have some fixed hour given up to answering questions they are liable to be interrupted at any time and their periods for undisturbed work never come. To systematize work they have made the matter perfectly plain in black...