Word: prays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That nolens. volens, pray we must...
...personal annoyance caused the students, and the danger of attending services held in a cold chapel, we deny the moral right of the authorities of a college to whip men into chapel when they are unwilling to attend. Men do not come to college to learn how to pray: as a rule, we think, they are quite capable of attending to their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason we have compulsory attendance at prayers, at present...
...matter of fact, the only regard paid to it is to weaken it. A man enters chapel, and a monitor marks on a slip of paper that he has worshipped God according to the rules and regulation of Harvard college. It is not necessary that he should pray every day. By some unknown power the authorities have come to the decision that it is only necessary to worship God four times a week. In case a man fails to attend the prescribed number of times in a year, he is compelled to make up his absences the following year. Four...
...ceased to frequent the quiet shades of Harvard. That the club has prospered so much is due to the awakened interest in wheeling which the present officers have aroused. All honor is due them, and the club, if it hopes for success in the future, cannot do better than pray that those chosen to the positions of trust under it may equal the present incumbents in efficiency...
...fair sized audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to hear Mr. Thomas Pray speak on the "Cotton Industry." The lecturer opened with an account of the early history of this manufacture. In 1787 the first cotton mill was started in Beverly. At that time to separate the lint from the seeds was the hardest work. This difficulty was removed by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. About 1810 power looms were put into general use. The speaker then continued to briefly trace the history of the industry down to the present time. During...