Word: followers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preliminary selection thus completed, the crew becomes a much more real thing than it has seemed during the constant shifting of places which has been necessary to determine the merits of the various candidates. Now that the few best oarsmen have been chosen, the interest of the University will follow them eagerly in their really serious work of developing an eight who can row together. We believe that there is every reason to be well satisfied with the progress which has been made so far, and to anticipate a continuation of it. Whatever may be the ultimate chances against Yale...
...Discourses, Reynolds ranked historical painting as the highest art. He said that the mere copier of nature could do nothing good, and that the greatest artist is he who most appeals to the imagination. Reynolds did not follow in practice what he believed in theory. His happiest efforts are those in which he followed the precepts of Dutch and Venetian Schools...
Lenten Season is the period for the formation of habit. One should make a definite resolution and follow it day after day unceasingly. Dean Hodges suggested that each man resolve to go to chapel each morning. Even if he did not feel any benefit from the service himself he was aiding others who needed the services by his presence, for it is a trait of human nature that a crowd always draws more to itself. He said the services should not be viewed with any sectarian idea. They were the family prayers of the college and sectarianism...
...said he was not there to dictate to the students; to bid them take up the sword and follow him into the fight; but simply to outline the war against evil, and to show the social principles of the Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make...
...been crowded and the constant re-echo of vociferous mirth and the general verdict of Boston coincides with that of New York that there is more amusing material in "The New Boy" than in any comedy presented here for years. The action is lively and the comical situations follow each other as fast as professional foot racers. There is ginger and go and snap in every scene. It is questionable if that always funny comedian, James T. Powers, has ever had a character more suited to his inimitable fun making faculties, nor has he ever portrayed one in Boston...