Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following article, which appeared in the March number of Our Day, in reply to Aleck Quest's "Fast Set at Harvard," was written by a recent graduate of Harvard, who, as he himself says, had every opportunity to know the facts...
Thursday, April 4th, has been applet Fast...
...Marquand, Harvard '89, and Mr. Johnson, B. Y. M. C. A., contested the feather-weight sparring. Through all three rounds the fighting was very fast, and punishment was given and received. Mr. Appleton decided it a draw...
...Williams was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a part of the seventeenth chapter of John, and selected the verse, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit...
...certain intervals during the college year the editors of the CRIMSON find it necessary to call the attention of the students to the needs of the editorial board. The time is fast approaching when it is the custom for the editors from the junior class to assume the management of the paper, the seniors retiring at the same time from active work. A large inroad is thus made upon the working force of the paper and the editors who are left find the demand upon their time and energy vastly increased. There is, therefore, no better time for the trial...