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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Deutscher Verein on Thursday evening last, a paper was read on the "Dialy of Emperor Frederick." Portions of the diary itself were then read and discussed by the members who were present...
...tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew a clear distinction between inward anger and unlawful anger. Christ was never guilty of the latter. His anger was never personal, never revengeful, but it was a reflex of the highest zeal for truth and holiness, a feeling of abhorrence...
...meeting of the Lacrosse Association was held last night in Holden Chapel. In the absence of the officers from '88, Mr. L. B. Stedman, L. S., called the meeting to order. The secretary's report was next read by Mr. E. S. Griffing, '89. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: M. A. Kilvert, '89, president; Leon Griswold, '89, vice-president; F. Tudor, '91, secretary; E. S. Rawson, '90, manager. It was voted that the manager be empowered to appoint assistant managers, and Mr. S. L. Bigelow, '90, was recommended as one of the assistants...
...meeting was one of the largest in the history of the Society, many of the instructors in the University and a number of graduates being present. Mr. Justin Winsor, the host of the evening, read to those who were present an account of an incident which occurred at Plymouth during the period of excitement attending the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. By means of a large map, Mr. Winsor examined the features of Plymouth Harbor and incidentally the adventures of the people of the Mayflower on that stormy Friday night when they first landed on American soil...
After the excitement occasioned by the report of the canvass had somewhat subsided, the temporary secretary of the Union, Mr. H. A. Davis, read the question for the evening's debate-"Resolved, that the present attitude of the Prohibition party is antagonistic to the advancement of prohibition." Mr. C. F. Ayer, of the Law School, opened the debate for the affirmative. He said, primarily, that the law which the Prohibitionists wish to bring to pass was a sumptuary one. No law should be passed that cannot be enforced. Maine is an example that the prohibitory law is useless...