Word: readings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was an unusual small attendance at vespers last evening. The galleries were well-filled, but the pews in the body of the chapel were for the most part empty. After the opening voluntary by Mr. Locke, Dr. Hale made the introductory prayer and read the xci. Psalm. The Rev. Mr. Gordon then delivered a short sermon, taking as his text, "Seek and Ye Shall Find." A portion of the speaker's remarks were substantially as follows: "Many men come near certain moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths...
...Boston Home Journal, published every Saturday, is now containing a series of papers which should be read by every college man who has an interest in the welfare of his country. The articles are entitled "The New (National) Education" and are signed "An Ex-college President...
...paper has greatly improved typographically. Accidents will happen occasionally, of course; but the general appearance is superior to that of past volumes. As for the charge of our not leading or making opinion, we deny its truth in the first place. There are comparatively few men in college who read the editorials-not because they are not worth reading, but because it is a "bore" to do so. Besides it is the fashion here at Harvard to mock and jeer and rail at the college papers. The Advocate must know that by experience. But we claim that those...
...meeting of the Zoological Club to-night, Mr. H. H. Field will read a paper on the "Development of the Urogenital System of Vertebrates." Doors open from...
WEATHER STRIPS, Outside Windows, to keep out the wind and cold are now being put on by Powers, 30 Boylston street, Read's Building...