Word: likes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three he will talk on Thackeray and Dickens, and on Friday next will close this very novel and interesting series of literary treats for such it may be called. It is something quite out of the ordinary run of college events, to see the continued interest in a course like this. The audience is not one which changes every week; on the contrary a large portion of the men are those who have attended with considerable regularity. The close attention and the willingness of all to listen for an hour or an hour and a half, as the case...
...into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason why he must put off, until he knows all truth, the practice of that which he already knows. he gave a vivid portrayal of the attempts of missionaries to correct the cannibals of the pacific Islands. It is men like these that move the world, and their spirit is what young men need...
...second and last of Professor Drummond's lectures will be given to-night in Sever 11 instead of Boylston Hall. While Boylston Hall is too small to accommodate the audience, Professor Drummond does not like to give his talk in such a large hall as Sanders Threatre. Different arrangements will be made for admittance to the Chapel next Sunday when Professor Drummond will preach, and notice of such arrangements will be published in the Calendar on Saturday...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
...insists that only those "accustomed to crookedness and hippodroming cannot imagine that anything in the way of sports can be free from some one or other phase of dishonesty." The second is that the accuracy of the editor's figures suggests that they were obtained from some tabulated statement, like that in the Crimson of February 9, 1893, where the expenses of the Harvard nine were itemized in full; but that the editor preferred to suppress them, and to indulge in his sneer with full knowledge that it was unwarranted and malicious...