Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...brief account of the work for the past year of the Phillips. Brooks House Association, the Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society, the St. Paul's Catholic Club and the Harvard Mission will be published in the early part of July. Copies will be sent to a large number of graduates, and at the opening of College next fall, to members of all Phillips Brooks House societies. Anyone wishing copies may obtain them, without cost, at Phillips Brooks House...
...text-book loan library, which is in its second year, has proved very successful. The object is to help men of small means by loaning them the books needed; in their courses. There were many demands for books not in the library, however, and a large number will still be needed to make the collection complete. Over 300 books have been added this year, given by members of the University, making a total of 700. Sixty-three men have made use of the library and 280 books have been loaned...
...average attendance at 'these meetings has been about 40. In the latter part of April eight meetings were held emphasizing evangelical authority and the deity of Christ; the last of these was conducted by Mr. Robert Speer of New York, and was attended by about 90 men. A large number of speakers has been sent out during the year to preparatory schools and city Christian Associations to talk to young men who are about to enter College. The association has also co-operated with the Social Service Committee in aiding social work...
...verse of the number aside from "The Jester" certainly belies the title of the latter. It is all very serious, not to say solemn. In "The Modern World," Mr. Wheelock dreams of a day "when Socialism, like another Christ, shall shatter the old world," and in an "Epilogue" his spirit reels, "Drunk with a defiance stronger than the tyranny of death!" In Mr. Miller's "The Aged Poet's Soliloquy" a bard of seventy-five long years grieves that men shall never know the richer veins of gold that lay below the inmost marvel of his poet's heart...
...Like all of Kennedy's crews, their blade work is extremely smooth and clean and they seem to have good speed. Both eights are stroked by men who have never rowed in a University shell before, but they both have the advantage of veteran oarsmen just behind them at number seven. There are more men of experience in the University boat than in Yale's, but the advantage is extremely small, as Yale's new men have had considerable experience with the Kennedy stroke...