Word: pray
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which is given to the elective system in the choice of studies. One would think that there was nothing in a young man's life on which he himself or his parents should be so competent to form an opinion as the time and place at which be should pray to Almighty God, and that there was no duty to which it was more absurd to drive him by law under defined penalties. And yet this is what the college authorities, who are steadily converting Harvard into a university in the large sense, insist on doing. The President and Fellows...
...Dear Sir.- Pray convey to the Harvard Shakspere Club my thanks for the honor which it has done me in asking me to deliver an address. It will be a pleasure and honor to me to appear at the University, and if Monday, 30th March, will be a convenient day, I shall hold myself ready to comply with the wishes of my Harvard friends. Believe me to be, my dear sir, sincerely yours...
...were too much taken up with their own devotion to notice how many others were in an equally religious frame of mind. Therefore, we recommend to the overseers that in their visits-if they wish to see how much good the students get out of compulsory chapel, they neither pray, nor sing, nor read. They need not fear that their conduct will be out of place, for, we assure them, they will find plenty of others who do not make Chapel their place of worship...
...college choir. Regular instruction in singing is to be given the choir by Mr. Schnecker, of New York, who is leader of a choir in a prominent New York church. The Princeton students, it is said, sadly mindful of the usual vocal efforts every morning in the chapel, earnestly pray that the New York musician will have success...
...Pray, The Cotton Industry...