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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stanislas Danion of the French Department is giving a series of ten lectures and readings, on Thursday afternoons at four o'clock, at the rooms of the Woman's Club, on Park street, Boston. The subjects of Mr. Danion's lectures are questions of contemporary life in France, literary, artistic, dramatic, religious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/19/1889 | See Source »

...utterly inadequate, and the need of more room has become too pressing to be disregarded. At present the largest room in Boylston is occupied by a collection of mineralogical specimens, one of the most valuable in the country, representing a large pecuniary value added to the labor of a life time. The remedy which Professor Cooke proposes is to have an addition built to the Agassiz Museum for the accommodation of this collection, and then to have the room which it now occupies in Boylston, fitted over for a lecture room for Chemistry A. The plan is a practicable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Cooke to the Freshmen. | 1/19/1889 | See Source »

...prayer by Dr. Alexander McKenzie, the congregation read responsively the 33d Psalm. Dr. McKenzie next read from the Revised Version the parable of the "Ten Talents." The lesson of this parable is that a man should adapt himself to circumstances. The demands made upon a man by modern life are, notwithstanding all its appliances and inventions, much more severe than at any time in the past. A man should, therefore, strengthen himself and try to do his duty. There is no excitement in a race unless the contestants are well matched, and the pleasure of success is always greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 1/18/1889 | See Source »

...Yale reading-room subscribes for 190 periodicals and papers. The greatest demand of the readers is for illustrated papers in this order-Puck, Life, Harper's Weckly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/17/1889 | See Source »

...second annual convention in Cambridge next year. Rev. Percy Browne, of St. James Church, Roxbury, addressed the meeting in a few earnest words of exhortation for the purification of our souls. He showed the necessity of cultivating restraint against the many temptations which are attendant upon a college life; at the same time urging us to live an active life, not to wait for some better opportunity to do good, but to adjust ourselves to the environments in which God has placed us. The cultivation of our souls lies as much in doing good to others as in attempting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of St. Paul's Society. | 1/17/1889 | See Source »

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