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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting to look over the early history of the Cooperative Society and to note the rapid progress which has been made in the last two or three years. For a while after the foundation of the society the business transacted each year varied but slightly and the success of the scheme was by no means assured. Within the past two years, however, the management has been vastly improved and there can be no doubt now but that the society is in every way on a thoroughly sound basis. The increase of business in '91 over '90 was only...
Last evening in Sever 11 the Rev. Louis Albert Banks addressed the Harvard Total Abstinence League on "The Progress of Temperance Reform in America." Mr. Keeler before introducing Dr. Banks stated that it is the intention of the League to hold these meetings once each month and to secure some prominent speakers to address the meetings...
...occurred to me, said Dr. Banks, that it would be of some interest for us to see just how much progress we are making in the temperance reform. Old people of ten tell us how very much worse things are now than they were many years ago. Let us look along the line and see for ourselves. Look at the attitude taken by church its whole position has changed in the last hundred years. We find that the church in the early part of this century was accustomed to pay. as a matter of course, bills to inn keepers...
...this evening, in Sever 11, Rev. Louis Albert Banks D. D. will address the Harvard Total Abstinence League on "The Progress of Temperance Reform in America...
...otherwise because athletics by nature force themselves into prominence more quickly than scholarly attainments. Athletics seem to be more absorbing and time taking than they actually are because those in them work in the sight of the public who can know how well they work and can follow their progress. With the student however, it is different; he works secretly and slowly, we cannot know, except periodically, the progress he makes and it is longer before he obtains recognition...