Word: powers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boat Club, owing to many absences, daily changes have taken place in all the crews. This, together with Vail's absence, has been a great handicap. As a result, hanging and rushing prevail throughout all the Newell crews. The first is better together than the others and should develop power, but at present the whole dean hangs at the full reach. The second Newell does not hang as much as the first, but the men lack leg drive and a clean finish. The most marked fault of the third crew is its inability to keep the boat steady...
...today who does not recognize the power and influence of mission work is an anachronism, the speaker began. Missionary spirit is in the air; and at home and abroad the spirit of active philanthropy and of the advance of Christianity is growing stronger. The great philanthropic work going on in American cities, the spread of the Christian religion in foreign fields, the inspiring work of Bishop Whipple among the Indians-these are the most striking instances of the prevalence and power of missionary enthusiasm...
...very fibre of their lives and their interests, as it is meant to be, they cannot in conscience keep from trying to spread it. What wonder that religion is sometimes called a weak and effeminate thing, what wonder that it is often robbed of its influence and uplifting power, when men hide it in the solitary musings of their minds, and date not, or care not to die out it must grow through unselfish service and through philanthropic and missionary work...
...work as long and as much as his mind will allow. The physical strength of a man increases until he reaches a certain age, then remains at a standstill and finally begins to decrease. But in this respect the mind differs from the body. With advancing age intellectual power and the pleasure in intellectupower, increase...
...engine to supply power for the ice plant and dynamo in Memorial Hall is now being set up, and will probably be in working order within a month...