Word: comings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been of greater importance than any made in the last few years. The Graduate School of Applied Science, which was established in March, 1906, was started, and the Lawrence Scientific School was closed to the further admission of students. Hereafter a student coming to Harvard University for work in applied science either will come equipped with a bachelor's degree and enter the Graduate School directly, or enter Harvard College and on graduation be qualified to enter the Graduate School...
...toward himself and his possessions by a single sentence from the lips of Jesus. In considering the requirement of Jesus in this case, Christendom has unfortunately fastened its attention not upon the essential but almost exclusively upon the accidental element, for the point of his command lies in the "Come, follow me," and to part with his possessions was but a preliminary which, in existing circumstances and in that particular instance, happened to be necessary. This young man's possessions stood in the way of his wondrous possibilities, for if he had been ready for the sacrifice which the acceptance...
...possibilities. Many a man of brilliant parts has made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast...
Since then only twenty-three cards have come in, pledging $874, and only $133 has been paid...
There is another possible reason for this state of affairs. Has the Senior Class come to the full realization of the fact that after all they are Seniors and that they are now laying the foundations of a fund which in time will be handed over to the University as a token of loyalty from the Class of 1908? Do they realize that unless the subscriptions are largely increased within the next few days there will not be funds enough to meet the expenses of the Class dinner, the last undergraduate affairs of the Class? Comparisons are odious at best...