Word: metting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...circumstances of St. Augustine's life were radically different from those of St. Ambrose. He was born in Africa and was designed by his father to become a professor, not a bishop. At Milan, however, he met St. Ambrose and, influenced by him, entered the clergy. On his return to Africa he was elected Bishop of Hippo. This office he held until his death. Influenced by a desire to get at the heart of things, he eventually took up the question of the source of evil and enriched the church by philosophical writings. As St. Ambrose was characterized...
Just a year ago two hundred and fiftysix men met in Massachusetts Hall in response to a call for candidates for the University track and field team. This was the largest number that had ever come out to train for a Harvard team. There is every reason why this number should be exceeded at the meeting tonight. Of the twenty-six hundred men in the Cambridge departments of the University, there are certainly more than one man in ten who have the time and capacity to undertake the training which candidates for this team will undergo, and who would...
...announced, though it is not to be until after the Christmas recess. We need not say that the unconcealed impatience with which members of the University have taken the continued delays in the construction has not lessened their appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's generosity. The need which he has met has been the most crying one which the University has felt within the past few years. Other needs have had a more important bearing on the life of Harvard as an institution of learning, but as a civilized community, none. That the demands of health and cleanliness...
...crews this year. If there is the slightest ground for the charge that favoritism is prevalent in Harvard athletics, the older graduates should know that Harvard men are losing their reputation for manliness and fair dealing. If the charge can be shown to be absolutely false, it should be met with indignant denial by undergraduates and graduates...
Last spring, on the initiative of the HarvardGraduate Club, graduate students from sixteen colleges and universities met in New York. The convention in Philadelphia this year will be the second such meeting of university graduates. In general the purposes of the coming convention are the same as those of the one held last year. The most important matter to be discussed is maintenance of standards for advanced degrees...