Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talk of five or ten minutes added to this service; every morning or so as many times a week, as may seem best? We should like to hear from the college how welcome such a change would be, - a change which in our opinion would make the morning services even more attractive than they...
This time the two crews got off more evenly and for some little time the race was very even; but the Undergraduates soon forged ahead, and won by half a length...
...same board with such men as sat in Memorial Hall on November 8, 1886, and hear such a flow of eloquence issue from their lips as then was heard, then he may boldly say that he has "lived to eat." It is not often that even a Harvard graduate may listen at once to after-dinner speeches by President Eliot, President Cleveland, Sir Lyon Playfair, Judge Devens and Mr. Geo. William Curtis. All of these addresses were remarkable for their strength and depth of sentiment. Through all of them there ran a just pride in Harvard's past achievements...
...foundation has been the story of a constant opening of this intense and limited and narrow life to the great human world by which it was surrounded. The years have brought perpetual enlargement. That narrowness and specialness of the 17th century Puritanism, has shown how healthy it was, even in its separation, by the capacity which it has developed to bind once more with larger human life, and make itself more and more truly human...
...college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...