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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advance sheets of the Radcliffe College Reports for 1895, being at hand, it is possible to give an accurate, though necessarily brief, review of the progress of the college during the past year...
...Baptist and Jesus Christ called their hearers to repentance. He went on to show how difficult it is for all classes of men to really repent. Some cannot reach the individuality of their sin because they are a part of a great army which sweeps them on in its progress and restrains them from acting independently as they might if they were alone. Others fall into a kind of mental indifference from which they seem to be unable to rouse themselves; they can not throw aside their sins and give their souls a chance...
...especially fitting that young men who are seeking cultivation in orther things should learn the lesson, that things spiritual, more than all else, require gradual, painful progress; that religious development deserves eager effort. If such an effort is heartily made, the beauty and truth of God will bless the undertaking...
...Mayo delivered a most interesting lecture last night in Sever Hall, on the progress of the public school system in the southern states before and after the war. He spoke in part as follows...
...progress on the Phelps Memorial gateway has been rapid in the last two weeks. The work of putting up the seventh tier of iron work is being rapidly pushed and when this is finished only one tier will remain to be added. About twenty-five feet is yet to be built and when complete the building is to have six stories and a loft. The gateway will take a long step toward the complete enclosing of the campus, which is now practically accomplished from Dufie to the Art School, about half the entire distance...