Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Because a paper is occasionally called upon to deal harshly with college organizations college men are apt to think that adverse criticism is its typical mood; yet where a paper has "justice" for its by word it must sometimes deal thus harshly or it fails in its mission. In this spirit of justice we feel ourselves right in criticising adversely the work of the freshman eleven. It is an old story-and only the worse for its age. To begin with, the freshmen have little or no discipline in their work and right here is the basis of the other...
...Grays last night. The following men were elected officers for the coming half year: President, T. R. Kimball '95; vice-president, M. Ladd '94; secretary, J. K. Whitte-more '95; treasurer, N. P. Dodge '95; chorister, G. B. Magrath '94; librarian, A. C. Train '96. Plans for mission work in Boston for the winter were discussed and the outlook is at present very promising. Father Field has offered a definite work for men who are willing to help him and it seems as if the college, through the St. Paul's Society, could give him all the help he will...
...club was able to move into still larger and more comfortable rooms. This year the accommodations have been still farther increased. Formerly the freshman classes raised the money to carry on the work, but since it moved the funds have been provided by the management of that mission, and now all the freshman class has to do is to furnish men to carry on the work and to subscribe $50 or $100 to provide for entertainments. The work has been very successful in past years...
...Cornell Volunteer, a new monthly magazine, will appear in March. It will be published by the Cornell Mission Band and will be devoted to general missionary work...
...object only of getting them into college. No matter how insufficient may be their elementary teaching or how limited and inadequate the practical education obtained from it, provided that sufficient knowledge is crammed into them to enable them to pass, by written examinations the requirements of the college, their mission is ended. This is a wrong state of affairs. On the contrary, instead of the college dictating to the schools what they shall do it should be, in a certain sense, the reverse. The schools should so educate their pupils that, when the proper time comes, they will be able...