Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...limited means, has made us realize only too well that the dormitory accommodations have been far from sufficient, and each year the number of men who are forced to room in private houses has been constantly growing. The inconveniences of our present reading room have tried our patience sorely, even so far that a year or two ago a movement was started to raise subscriptions to form the nucleus of a fund for the erection of such a reading room as has just been given us. The generous gift of some anonymous friend has spared us the necessity of waiting...
...past year has been successful in every direction, we hope that the coming year will be even more so, both for the University and for the CRIMSON...
...grand tribute to Phillips Brooks that even the storm could not keep St. John's Memorial Chapel from being filled last evening, when Bishop Clark of Rhode Island spoke of Phillips Brooks as he had known him in the pulpit, in the bishopric, in his life...
After all, then, the text is not a mere rhetorical paradox, though its maxim is even now regarded as a distant ideal, impracticable at present. Even in the church the largest purse secures the best pew. Not many years ago John Ruskin spoke in bitter words of England's growing indifference to the laws of Christ. Other nations, he said, had rejected a Supreme Ruler, but had done it bravely and honestly. Englishmen acknowledged the existence of a God, but it was a foolish one. The devil's laws were alone practical. The Golden Rule was an ideal impossible...
...requested to call attention once more to the Sunday evening theatre services, and the great help that Harvard men can give by leading in the singing there. These services are meeting with even greater success than they did last year, and the attendance has been encouraging in every way. There is still a pressing need of volunteers to take part in the singing and help in other directions. It is a very philanthropic object, and the success of these services would surely repay any little work that one can do for them...