Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doing good work in effecting savings to members, and its usefulness is so generally felt that it would not be permitted in any event to expire. The number of members needed to keep up the society is therefore pretty sure to join sooner or later. But many who mean to join have delayed in doing so through mere negligence or carelessness or forgetfulness. We hope that all former members will promptly renew their membership, in order that the number may be brought immediately to the working point. The men of the lower classes, who have several years of college life...
...question of admitting women to McGill University, Montreal, has been discussed a good deal lately by the college authorities, and although some are in favor of admitting them, there seems to be considerable objection to it. In the mean while, Dr. Dawson, the president, has gone to Europe intending to make inquiries on the subject, and the faculty have decided to await his return before making any move...
...James Freeman Clark gave one of his characteristic addresses last evening before the Divinity students. His subject was: "The Evotution of the Christian Minister." He chose this subject, he said, wishing to be in fashion. The old word was "development." Both words mean growth. He then gave a very interesting and practical discussion, illustrated largely from his own experience, of the growth of the minister in the performance of his clerical duties...
...fact that the young ladies of Girton College, England, have organized a fire brigade among themselves, and hope to do efficient service if occasion arises. These young ladies, it says, after vainly entreating Chief Shaw to form them into a fire company, have voted that he is a mean old thing, and have organized a fire company closely modeled upon those to which men belong. "That the Girton girls should endeavor to fit themselves to put out their own fires is, of course, laudable. Although there is no danger that Girton College will be set on fire by careless smokers...
...truly a matter of congratulation that Yale has such a height of self-satisfaction. Nevertheless it is true that every Harvard man who reads the above quotation must feel in some slight measure the force of the criticism implied therein. We do not mean to disparage the recent conference. We hope it is only the first of many more such meetings, called to discuss both other as well as similar subjects. It is evident that there is at present little to be done by the students in the matter. We can only await the outcome of the negotiations...