Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Expenses will be as follows: program fee, which goes toward the general, cost of the conference, $5; board for ten days, $9; dormitory room, $3 (this is reduced for those who live in tents). Reduced railroad rates are granted from all points, the round trip from Cambridge costing about $3.75. Men staying only a part of the time will be charged accordingly. It is expected that men attending the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake who wish to go to Northfield will be excused for part of the ten days...
...felt. The government of the University loses in him a successful administrator, sagacious and resourceful, and a stimulating and inspiring teacher; his colleagues, a delightful associate and comrade, whose words and ways brightened many a tedious hour; the students, a warm-hearted, whole-souled friend. Those of us who live near the Yard will miss his picturesque figure, like that of a handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair...
...good fortune to live until the purposes he had labored for through many years had been accomplished or were in good promise of rapid fulfilment; and although he did not see the full fruition of his work, the time had come when he could say that his great task for Harvard was practically done: the development of what he has accomplished can now be safely left to other hands. The place that he leaves empty in the hearts of his friends no one can fill. B. S. HURLBUT...
...modern society, tend towards and against such sympathy. "How simple it all growes as we grow older," wrote Mr. Brooks after his return from India, when his incomparable experience had finally fallen into place in the perspective of his religious thinking. "The whole of what we personally have to live and what we go out to preach is sympathy to Christ. To grow better and stronger ourselves is merely to draw nearer...
...broader representation, geographically, of directors, and their nomination by mail and election by the Australian ballot system in order that the body may be a representative gathering when needed for the discussion of live college subjects...