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...future reward; the other, composed of those whose minds are filled with selfish and sordid purposes. People of the first class are successful simply because they have interest in the work itself. That interest is not purchased by bribery, is not caused by fear of consequences; but is present because God is working out his purposes through these earnest men and women. The man who works not with God belongs to the second class; the little capacity that he possesses is taken from him because he has no part in the advancement of the race. During the services Mr. Karl...
...well as important event in college life. By its means the members of a class are all brought together in a pleasant, social way that goes far towards strengthening the bonds of fellowship and friendship which should exist among the members of every class. The tendency at the present age is for all class feeling to be obliterated or swallowed up by the division into cliques and clubs. But as every college man is of necessity more or less identified with his class, so the importance of these class dinners cannot be over-estimated. In after life the class...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Rehearsal tonight at 7 p. m. All are requested to be present...
...meeting was called to order, as usual, after time. After the preliminary business was transacted, the first gentleman on the affirmative, Mr. E. H. Savary, spoke on the question for the evening: "Resolved, that contested election cases of members of Congress should be tried by the Supreme Court." The present method, said he, of deciding contested elections, although practicable in the early days of the Republic, is now bungling and unjust. Of the cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters have been adjudged according to the political views of the votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue...
There were about two hundred Harvard graduates at the twenty-second annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York, which took place on Tuesday evening at Delmonico's. In addition to the gentlemen there were many ladies present in the galleries of the large dining hall, which are always especially reserved for the fair sex at these Harvard dinners. Mr. Edmund C. Wetmore, the president of the club, presided. Among the guests of the evening were President Eliot, General W. T. Sherman, Prof. G. H. Balmer, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, Chauncey M. Depew of Yale, Mayor...