Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...played two 15-minute halves yesterday afternoon. Neither side was able to score. '91 showed great lack of team work but had the advantage of '92 in weight...
...many charity organizations of Boston eagerly welcome any aid from Harvard students. In order to make more plain the line of work thus opened, the Hon. Robert Treat Paine, president of the Boston Associated Charities had consented to describe the method of that organization. Mr. Paine said that the great problem which the Associated Charites had tried to solve was how to utilize the spare moments which busy men and women can give to the service of fellow beings less fortunately situated. It is the object of the association to send in to every family in distress some...
...Society was then introduced. He said there were two leading points to be considered in discussing student work. First the work must be of itself of real value, and second it must suggest the broader and deeper problem of life. The work suggested does lead directly into all the great social questions of the day, intemperance, divorce, prison reform, everything in fact except the Indian question. At the close of the meeting Professor Peabody requested all who were willing to undertake the work to communicate with him and with the office of the Associated Charities or the Children...
...average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable...
...Last fall the rates for play were materially lowered. The system of season and coupon tickets was introduced, and has proved a great convenience to both players and managers. The reduction of rates caused a lessening in receipts, which was offset by greater economy in the management of the tournaments. The debt originally incurred for making the courts, has been reduced by $150 and now amounts to $250. The following is a summary of the accounts for the year...