Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course of lectures on Soldier's and Sailor's Life announced this morning, not only promises to be of interest but of special significance to undergraduates. Evidently, in arranging for the lectures, the Corporation have had the aim of assisting those who contemplate enlistment to take the step with their eyes open, and from the character of the lectures we feel able to predict that the course will prove an able exposition of service conditions both past and present. The course is well calculated to be useful, and, we are confident, will meet with due appreciation...
...other contributions are: a "Sailor's Requiem," by P. A. Hutchinson '99, and "Triolet," by F. W. C. Hersey 1900, poems...
...Copeland will give a reading from the works of Mr. Rudyard Kipling tonight in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock. The reading will include a passage of prose, "The White Horses," "The Bell Buoy," "Danny Deever," "Soldier and Sailor Too," "Pharaoh and the Sergeant," "Tomlinson," and "The Flag of England...
...present the Association is trying to interest more men in the Sailor Mission, and expects that some of its members will assist in the work at the North End Mission. Delegates will be sent to the preparatory schools, as was done last year. Mr. Gailey, of the '96 Princeton football team, will speak in Holden Chapel, December...
...success of the Fishermen's Reading Room, conducted by the Sailor Mission branch of the Christian Association, marks another step in the progress of Harvard's practical philanthropy. That the undertaking has been a thorough success the large daily attendance of seafaring men shows. But that it might be made more attractive to sailors and so be made still more successful, the experience of its promoters shows; and they have decided to put on file in the room a number of periodicals. To the payment of the subscription prices for these periodicals students are asked to contribute. We hope...