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DEAR SIRS:- As the outcome of much talk this winter about charity work by college men, it is proposed to unite in a single organization all members of the University who are now engaged in any form of philanthropic work, or who are studying any part of the social question, or who are willing to be counted as allies in such service. I wish, therefore, to invite all students who are in any degree moved to this kind of interest, to meet informally at my house on Wednesday evening next, March 20, at 7.30 P. M. We shall then talk...
...Globe Theatre meetings and this year other less general plans for organized work among the poor have been discussed and tried. They have demonstrated the existence of a healthy religious life among us, but have not been quite satisfactory because of the necessarily negative character of their work. After much thought and delay caused by the many difficulties which had to be surmounted, a scheme has been evolved by which every man will have a chance to do what he can for others without neglecting his college work. It is hoped to furnish opportunities of usefulness which will...
...would ask men to refrain from showing their approval or disapproval while the rounds in sparring are going on. Last year much harm was done and much ill-feeling was caused by the failure of the spectators to control themselves. After the bouts are over it will be time for men to applaud, and if they disapprove, to keep silence...
...cricket match between a Sidney eleven and eighteen of Spaulding's base ball players at Sidney on Dec. 18, A. Gregory, for the Australians "took ten wickets with slow, very slow breaking balls" much to the surprise of the visitors...
...make a prohibitory amendment part and parcel of the Massachusetts constitution, for a constitution is not a code of law or of morality. The principles of every constitution have all been proved successes. The same cannot be said of prohibition. Again, the theory of governments is to leave as much as possible to local bodies; hence if the people of Massacnusetts want prohibition let each separate city council voth for prohibition...