Word: holding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christian Association will hold its first missionary meeting of the year in Holden Chapel tomorrow evening at 6.45. The work of the association in city and foreign missions will be explained and discussed...
...Harvard University Cycling Association will hold a race meeting on Holmes Field on Monday, October 21, at 4 p. m. The events will be a one-half mile scratch, a two mile handicap and a one mile scratch. This meeting will be open to riders in the University only, as the object is to increase interest in bicycle racing and to develop material for the Mott-Haven team...
...from complicating the situation by any recriminations or statements except by publishing a denial on the part of the officers of the Springfield game of the truth of the charges which reflected not only on the Yale team but the good name of our university. While we do not hold you or your team responsible for these accusations it was in your power to have contradicted them and thus to have neutralized their serious effect not only upon us, but the sport. Under these circumstances we feel that it would not be for the best interests of football...
...been led to suppose by the imaginative stories which have been going the rounds. It is just such a letter as one would expect to receive from a gentleman connected with one of the universities of the country. Captain Thorne said in his letter that while Yale did not hold the Harvard team responsible for the charges which have gone forth from the public press, Yale felt that Harvard men had not contradicted them as they might and thus neutralized the effect upon Yale as a university and upon the sport. No mention of an apology is contained...
This Student Volunteer work, therefore, is simply a cooperative effort by young men at Harvard to meet the problem thus created: to get hold of this thing called charity, philanthropy, social service, most simply and effectively,- to secure a real adaptation between it and the conditions of college life. The new activity must help, not hinder, the people or the causes that we venture to touch, and must enrich, not impair, student life...