Word: handful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Student Volunteer Committee, since its organization three years ago, has had annually two collections of second hand clothing. The fall collection will be made on next Tuesday, December 8. On that day, between 3 and 4, and 7 and 8 p. m., the college and private dormitories will be canvassed. All are requested to have ready at these hours any articles of clothing which they wish to be distributed by wise charitable organizations. From the collection made last May over thirteen barrels of wearable clothes were distributed among the needy in Boston and Cambridge. As the students have now become...
...preliminary list of candidates for the Harvard pair that will contest at New York during Christmas week in the chess cup tournament has been already published. The lists from Columbia and from Princeton are at hand...
...have at hand a volume entitled "Mornings in the College Chapel" (Houghton Mifflin and Co.), by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody. It contains a collection of short addresses on personal religion, delivered by Dr. Peabody at morning service. Each of these little monographs evolves briefly one distinct thought, a mere suggestion to be worked out to its conclusion by each individual and applied to his own particular needs. A large variety of topics are touched on, all of them personal and direct to a high degree, and treated in Dr. Peabody's characteristically straight-forward manner...
...punting, Harvard had much the best of it. Wrightington did most of the kicking and always succeeded in getting the ball off quickly. Minds, on the other hand, had several of his punts blocked, and his successful efforts generally fell short...
...probability be willing to accept an invitation to address a Harvard audience. It seems to us that this opportunity ought not to be lost. Could not some of the societies which in past years have invited men of prominence to address the University take the matter in hand, and give the students the privilege of hearing this famous author...