Word: felt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nobody who attended chapel last evening felt unrewarded. Dr. Abbott preached a sermon that held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren...
...three out of the four following men, - Professors Taussig of Harvard, Hadley of Yale, Seligman of Columbia, and President Andrews of Brown, all men with wide reputations for fair-mindedness and sound judgment. The decision will change the character of the debates materially. Last year neither side felt sure of its ground, and both were unwilling to risk a decision. The debates, while conspicuously successful, were more like oratorical contests in which each man spoke largely for himself. Henceforth all this will be changed. The two universities, having tested each other's strength, are now ready for the real contests...
WHEREAS: God in his infinite wisdom has taken from us our class-mate Wayne MacVeagh Jr. Be it resolved that we have lost in him not only a companion but a gentleman, scholar and friend whose loss will ever be felt as irreparable. Be it further resolved that these resolutions be published in the Boston and college papers and a copy of them be sent to the parents of the deceased...
...Clubs left Cambridge Thursday morning, Dec 22, in time for the eleven o'clock tram for New York on the Boston and Albany. Though they had no such evidence of the support and good wishes of the college as the athletic teams receive on similar occasions, they felt that they really had those good wishes and that their place as representatives of Harvard was quite as responsible as that of the athletic teams. For half an hour before train time men with bags. +++ mandolins, coats, umbrellas, c n s and hat boxes, came straggling into the station on Kneeland Street...
Seldom, if ever, has there been a death of one recently among us, so widely felt and so very sad, as that of Samuel Foster McCleary Jr., of the class '88. He was a simple, thoroughly good, scholarly fellow, beloved by all that knew...