Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students will attend prayers more willingly and earnestly when they are offered them and not thrust upon them. Still further, the influence of religion loses its force on men when they are compelled, whether they will or no, to hear it preached to them. The successful way to draw college men to thoughts of religion is to attract them to religious services, not force them there. The system has succeeded with us, and it would have been better spirited for the University of Chicago to have inaugurated it with the student body there. The daily paper of the university...
...Treasurer of the college is authorized to draw upon Prof. Condon at sight to the amount named on Feb, 15 of each year...
...these men do except to study, and also to see what proportion of men do nothing but study. Of course this last classification must not be taken literally, for there are very few men in the list who have not some interest outside their books. However, in order to draw some line between those who do and those who do not enjoy social advantages in the college, the class of "members of societies" is made to include members of the Hasty Pudding Club, Pi Eta, Delta Upsilon, Institute of 1770, O. K., and the Signet. Then besides the members...
...College Conferences also were of an instructive nature, notably the practical series devoted to the choice of a profession. While we have within our own walls men well read and experienced in these subjects, who are themselves capable of speaking in them, we have also drawn and continue to draw lecturers from all parts of this country and of Europe. In this way we meet men of different stamp from ourselves, viewing the subjects from another point and presenting them in a manner which cannot fail to be beneficial for intellectural development...
...attending them make but a small proportion of the number. While Mr. Black's lectures are of a nature entertaining to all they are designed especially for Harvard men and greater numbers should attend. This does not mean that there is any desire to exclude outsiders, but merely to draw more students than now come. Were these popular lectures given in a large hall as has been suggested many times doubtless fewer college men and outsiders also would be turned away from the door. At any rate since these lectures are meant primarily for the college and are so successfully...