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...services tomorrow at Appleton Chapel. Bishop Vincent has taken a very prominent position among the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is noted for being a hard and conscientious worker in the church as well as a scholarly and forcible preacher. Bishop Vincent, moreover, has won considerable renown by his organization of the Chatauqua movement which has done so much in the interests of the people. He has been the head of the school ever since it has started and it is due chiefly to his energetic work that the movement has acquired such importance and influence...
Harvard's representatives in the intercollegiate games will be very largely the same men who won the victory over Yale for us last Saturday. The experience which they gained on that day ought to come in well and to prove an aiding factor in winning renown next week Saturday. At the intercollegiate games, however, there are bound to be many circumstances which will work to the disadvantage of the team. The competition of many different sets of men will prove one of these disadvantages; strange grounds and a lack of the heartiest support may prove equally detrimental...
...they know that perseverance and industry will bring them success, but this success may be far different from what they anticipated. There are many professors here today who entered college with no thought of teaching, but God saw fit to open up for them this life of usefulness and renown...
...successful life may be from a worldly point of view a failure. Success does not mean riches and renown; it means rather the fulfillment of God's purpose. This purpose may be at variance with ours, but the more we let it enter our lives, the more truly shall we achieve success...
...Conference Francaise will hold its first meeting for the year Wednesday evening. Dr. P. B. Marcou, the new instructor in the French Department, will speak on Victor Jacquemont, a writer of the early part of this century, whose literary talent and adventurous career entitle him to a wider renown than posterity has granted him. He travelled extensively in the Orient and once had an opportunity to become viceroy of Cashmere. Among those who have promised to address the Conference later in the year are Professor Van Daell, of the Institute of Technology; Professor C. H. Grandgent, superintendent of Modern Languages...