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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CLEVELAND, JR., Sec.IF there are any successful dining clubs now in existence in Cambridge will some member send a statement of the general circumstances of the club to B, CRIMSON Office? By student dining clubs are meant those clubs which pay a fixed sum for service and cooking to outsiders, but whose food is purchased by members...
...music are there modernized; and, although once before a Latin play was given in this country, the pronunciation of the Roman Catholic church was then used. No Latin play has ever been given in modern times that so nearly reproduces ancient conditions as does the Phormio. It has meant an immense amount of work; hardly any of the actors had ever made a study of dramatic expression before, and, even if they had, they were confronted by problems which no actor ever faced before. To master these problems has meant, not to speak of work in private, rehearsals two, three...
...even more and of far greater difficulty in the domain of conduct, for this latter is the study of our relations with our fellow men. In the domain of conduct we must, not as in science, have first ideas and conform to them acts and facts. Such ideas are meant as those instinctive in the human mind, as personal freedom, popular autonomy, and social justice. These always have been controlling agencies of society...
...Augustine has said somewhere in his writings, "I believe that which is incredible." If we define "incredible" as it is ordinarily used, as meaning that which is not consistent with reason, there is no sense in such a statement; but what Augustine meant was that he believed something beyond what is natural or comprehensible. This must always be the case with our belief in God,- we can not know and understand Him, and any doctrine that professes this is obviously false. To know God, faith is necessary-we must believe what we cannot...
...restaurant, where each man ate his meal, and felt morally bound immediately to give his place to the next man. Memorial has been very much more to students than an eating-house, and to such a condition it must not be reduced. On the other hand, the Hall was meant to accommodate Harvard students,- not the particular ones who happen to be in possession of club tables now, but all students without distinction. Moreover, the price and quality of board is such that a majority of students resident in Cambridge wish to be in the Hall. Certainly as many students...