Word: instead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made to claimant this difficulty by beveling the bottom in the corners of the tank near the bow of the boat and by erecting washboards near them. By means of these it is expected that the water will form two continuous currents-one on each side of the boat-instead of only one as formerly. The boat was placed in position last week, but will not be used till after Christmas. At present the candidates for the crew row on the harbor when the water is not too rough, and take long runs. The majority of the candidates now working...
...President Eliot and several people from Cambridge were seated in the audience. From seven o'clock till half past the chorus of about one hundred college men sang several hymns while the congregation were being seated. At 7.30 o'clock the regular services began. Prof. Peabody conducted the meeting instead of Rev. E. E. Hale, who will preach at one of the other services. Prof. Peabody made a very interesting address, to which the congregation listened attentively and appreciatively. The college choir sang twice during the evening. The anthems sung, "The King of Love My Shepherd is" and "How Beautiful...
When Rev. Phillips Brooks was in Philadelphia lately, he was asked about the results of the system of voluntary chapel prayers at Harvard University, which has replaced the immemorial compulsory services. He replied in substance: "Instead of seven or eight hundred, as formerly, there are now one hundred and fifty; but those one hundred and fifty are animated by a sincere spirit of devotion. The constraint and formality has passed away. And (whether or not, as a consequence of the change) the general religious tone of the University has been, of late, greatly elevated and improved.-Presbyterian...
...been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open one and already there is an upheaval of the old forms. If every senior class will hold to worthy ideals, as eighty-eight does now, we may expect in the future victory and optimism, instead of defeat and pessimism...