Word: holding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight of the fourteen institutions referred to there is no study of American institutions, except incidentally for purposes of illustration. Courses in political economy are offered in all; in many American topics hold the leading place; in others they scarcely enter, the subject being treated from the theoretic and general side...
...Yale Exeter Club will hold its first annual dinner on February 6 at Radcliffe's. Professor Cilley will be the guest of the evening...
...members were called to order by the president at 7.45 o'clock. The secretary's report was dispensed with and the club proceeded at once to the business of the meeting. It was unanimously voted to have a dinner and after a short discussion it was decided to hold this dinner at the Thorndike, on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 20. The secretary was instructed to see all members and endeavor to secure a full attendance. On motion of Mr. Babbitt, '91, the executive committee of the club, Messrs. Black, Beckwith and Cheney was empowered to make all the necessary...
...fire by the use of a hand grenade. This proved unavailing however, and he was forced to run upstairs and inform a friend, who rung in an alarm from the Square. As soon as the engine appeared the fire was quickly extinguished, not however, until it had already taken hold of the wooden partitions and began a little to burn the beams on the first floor. The occasion will be long remembered as the most informal meeting between faculty and students for many months...
...mission, but when the time came for self-denial and for action the disciple hesitated. So in the world to-day, men of every station have their ideals, but when they find between them and the fulfilment of these ideals long years of drudgery and self-sacrifice, they hold back from the struggle and are content to remain among the commonplace things of earth. Men can never be what God wishes them to be until they take Christ's saying into their hearts-"I must go up to Jerusalem," Before the closing hymn, Mr. Skinner of the Law School sang...