Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other fields he has been no less prominent. It is hard to conceive of Harvard without him, but we can take comfort in the knowledge that his influence will remain after him, and that the memory of his deeds will spur his followers on to even greater endeavors. To him--as preceptor, administrator, citizen, and friend--the full love, gratitude and admiration of the university is given. May the years to come to attended with the success and happiness which have been his lot in the past half-century...
...early for the team, but anyone who has examined the place where they have to dress for practice cannot blame them very much for their apparent indifference. The locker rooms are dark, unsanitary and improperly ventilated; the lockers themselves are minute and crowded together without regard to the comfort or health of their users. No wonder candidates for the team prefer to wait for warmer weather when they can use the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, quite palatial in comparison to the Gymnasium...
...know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief of which is the egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there...
...prices of rooms in Holyoke House for the year 1908-09 vary from $125 to $225; in this and former years they were from $100 to $200. This slight increases in rent will be more than offset by the great increases in the comfort and accessibility of the rooms...
...given in the form of a special Advent service with Christmas music. The service will be held in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock, and will be conducted by the Rev. S. A. Eliot '84, D.D., of Cambridge. The following musical program will be rendered: "Almighty God," Schubert; "Comfort Ye, My People," Handel; "O Holy Night," Adam. Mr. C. B. Shirley will be the soloist...