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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the University, as a whole, have accepted the responsibility toward religion which the voluntary system has laid upon them. In addition to the work of the religious societies, class prayer-meetings have been undertaken, and we are encouraged to believe that no young man need miss religious influence among us for lack of companionship or sympathy. On the other hand, we entirely appreciate that a considerable number of students have lived this year without any relation to our work, and we take the liberty of urging parental advice for our assistance. The religious life of the College cannot...
...shall be glad of any counsel from the homes of our students as to better ways of serving them, and we wish to have our attention called to any cases of special need in which we may be useful. General correspondence should be addressed to the Plummer Professor, though any Preacher will gladly consider such questions as may be more appropriately addressed...
...those who do not play foot-ball during the fall, and who yet enjoy a bracing afternoon's sport, no better opportunity is afforded than the runs across country undertaken by the Hare and Hounds Club. Everyone feels the need of some sort of recreation after the studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much...
...Society was organized in March, 1882, being the outgrowth of discussions in the college papers and at public meetings upon the prevailing high prices of students' necessaries. The need of an organization that could furnish many goods at prices only slightly above first cost, and many others at fair retail prices, was so generally felt in college that there was not wanting sufficient enthusiasm to start, at once, a store partially stocked, and managed by directors chosen from the students and instructors, the Directors providing plans for work and a business manager. From a very small beginning the business...
This agreement was thought to be advantageous to the boat club because it secured for it at cost a pair oar, of which it then stood in need, a test of these inventions of Mr. Fearon, which several graduates prominent in boating matters had recommended as well worth a trial and if they proved to be of value, the sole use of them for one year...