Word: presentation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...satisfaction of knowing that they have brought credit on themselves, the committee and their University. Let their fellows who for various reasons can not or do not take an active part, lend the workers a pecuniary hand at least, for the most serious check on the committee is at present a lack of funds. Further progress should not be thus forbidden...
...beneficial line of philanthropic work than that which offers to workingmen a pleasant and wholesome resort where they can be thrown on a seemingly equal footing with those who are interested in their welfare. The charitable work undertaken by Harvard men has always had such an aim, and the present step may be taken as a distinct advance and one truly worthy of support...
...employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this, for it is proposed to form a committee of students, who will visit the rooms at stated periods, and who will endeavor to help the men, as opportunity occurs, with advice and sympathy and encouragement...
ENGLISH CLUB.- A meeting will be held this evening at 7.30 at 18 Grays. This is an especially important meeting and all members are urgently requested to be present...
...opened his rich store of erudition without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through the land can bear testimony, recalling that it was he who first showed them that there were things to be learned which were not set down in any book,- that he initiated them, in fact, into modern methods of individual research...