Word: joining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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These evils, I am glad to say, the Advocate intends to correct. May I, without presumption, urge you also to join heartily in the good work? The necessity for action is only too evident when we reflect that by following our base example, and letting the ignoble body attain the ascendency over the glorious mind, hundreds will be doomed to utter darkness. Your contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest...
...with pleasure that we hear of the flourishing condition of the New York Harvard Club. That association now numbers over two hundred members; and every Harvard graduate residing in New York is earnestly requested to join. The Club invites all Harvard undergraduates to their annual dinner, which takes place at New York on Friday, February 18. At the last annual meeting held at New York on the 11th inst., the election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows...
...members of the University who wish to join the Harvard Rifle Club are requested to send their names at once to either...
...elected with great care, and usually with great deliberation. Each class admits from the class which follows a few men, chosen with care from among the entire body of their classmates. These few men meet together from time to time, and elect others from their own class to join them, forming in the end a carefully chosen body, which will include, on the whole, the most prominent and the most deservedly prominent men in their class. Every man whose character and ability fit him to become a member of a society has usually an opportunity...
...whose experience and character a class can have more reverence than is possible towards a person whom we do not know, or, at most, know only in the varied scenes of college life. I do not advocate the abolition of the last opportunity of a class to join in prayer, but only that the importance of that occasion should be appreciated, and that it should not be marred by any wonder as to how well Tom or Dick can "make a prayer." We listen every morning to the simple eloquence of the preacher to the University; can we not trust...