Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...usual audience gathered last evening in Appleton Chapel to hear Rev. George A. Gordon. He spoke from the text, I Samuel, ix, 3; and x, 1; Saul sought an ass, said the preacher, and found a kingdom. There is many a man who seeks a kingdom and finds an ass. I want to discourse the secret of the success of the one man and the failure of the other. Saul found a kingdom because he was in the line of duty. Faithful devotion to duty in the least things is the surest path to success in the greatest. This...
...nine year-old son is in serious trouble. The lad has been told that he is to enter college when he is eighteen and by a not too complex mathematical calculation he has figured out that this will place him in the class of 1900. He is accustomed to hear his father speak of his class as that of '75, and reasoning by analogy, he has arrived at the conclusion that his own will be the class of '00. "And, papa," he says, "of course nobody would want to belong to the class of nothing at all. Everybody would make...
...College League series takes place. We understand that a large delegation of Harvard men are going to New York to see the initial game with Columbia. In times past, lack of support has been complained of, but Harvard will be well represented on Saturday. The Polo Grounds will hear for the first time the Harvard cheer, we hope after as well as during the game...
...large audience assembled in Sever 11 last evening to hear a discussion of the question, Resolved, "That President Cleveland's course in the pension vetoes is to be approved...
...have anything to do with it. But I am convinced that not even political economy is content to accept prudence of this sort as an attribute. Again, to cap the climax, "There are no two characters more unlike than the heroic man and the prudent man." Do you hear this, students of political economy? You are not Christians. There are no germs of heroism in your souls. Do you hear this, earnest Christians? Political economy is to you a thing to be shunned; your conduct is guided by no reason, and you are in every way imprudent...