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...railroads naturally bring civilization with them. The lecturer also gave words of praise to the missionaries for the work they have done and are doing. The Indian, contrary to general opinion, is deeply religious, and all that is necessary is to exchange his present faith for a deeper and purer one. General Armstrong also said that the Indian is slow to acquire a knowledge of English, but can readily solve mathematical problems if the conditions are not too complicated. In conclusion the lecturer said that there is no fear that those Indians, who have been carefully educated in the east...
...some of the later graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, who are banded together under the name of "The Cambridge Brotherhood." Mr. J. B. Sharland is now drilling a choir to lead in the congregational singing. The addresses will be direct appeals in the interests of a better, a purer life, and will be absolutely free from doctrinal teachings. - Cambridge Chronicle...
...collegiate foot ball must cease for us, at least for the present. But it is to be hoped that a careful consideration and revision of the rules and of the game during the winter by a committee of under-graduates, graduates, and the Athletic Committee, will result in a purer and better game, which we can play here next autumn; and which, if the Princeton authorities and those of some other colleges are constrained by public opinion to follow Harvard's action, we shall soon begin to play with other colleges-perhaps even within a year...
...invited guests. They were mostly of the younger generation, but not all. All, however, had the glow and freshness of the student's life still bright upon them. A finer company of gentlemen could probably not be found anywhere in the world. A company of brighter, fresher and purer faces we never saw, and shall probably never see. There were present, direct from home and the common mother, Professors Palmer and McVane...
...term "atmosphere" has fallen into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing...