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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...services are held under the management of the City Episcopal Mission of Boston, and are intended to reach the large class of people who attend no church. Last year Columbia Theatre was well filled every Sunday evening with all kinds of people, principally those of the lower class who seldom get a chance to hear a good preacher. Some of the preachers have been prominent clergymen in the city, such as Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Rev. Edward E. Hale, Rev. Phillip Moxom and others. These services met with good success; they reached the class of people for whom they were...
...Seldom, if ever, has there been a death of one recently among us, so widely felt and so very sad, as that of Samuel Foster McCleary Jr., of the class '88. He was a simple, thoroughly good, scholarly fellow, beloved by all that knew...
...part to the influence of the elective systems in giving us a broader view of the methods of Education may be a question; but it is certain that in the days of prescribed work, when the college pursued each year a narrow routine, public lectures were seldom if ever given. They are a growth of later years and each year they have steadily increased in number. The topics have been varied, - we have had lectures upon Theology, Literature, Government and other subjects covering a wide range. The College Conferences also were of an instructive nature, notably the practical series devoted...
...average undergraduate, however, the full value of the lectures seldom presents itself until it is too late for him to profit from them. We are inclined here at college to try to do too much, to have a hand in that thing or this thing and in consequence to do many things indifferently instead of a few things successfully. We plead no time to stop to take the voluntary advantages offered us by the University; and yet it is certain that at no time after college life do we find these advantages under as good circumstances. These varied lectures...
...before. As a means of exercise these runs are very successful, especially since they are a form of open air sports and about the only one which we have at this time of the year. Many men doubtless hesitate to join them because of their length, but they are seldom much over an hour in duration and the pace is never set so rapidly but that most men can follow it. These runs are well worth joining and we recommend all men who want a good form of exercise to take part in them...