Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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William R. Thayer '81, contributes an article entitled "Shall We Have a University Club," which is intended to show that a University club is much needed in the social life at Harvard. In the course of the article, which is of interest as a discussion of a living question, Mr. Thayer gives the history and objects of the different societies and clubs already existing at the college, and shows how they have helped to bring about a social chaos, and this in turn to bring about an athletic chaos. In closing his article the writer says. "Let there...
...really significant activities in the College, none make less outward show than the religious, yet there are none which play a more important part in the student life. How important a part they do now play, very few of the undergraduates themselves realize. Statements on the subject cannot properly take the statistical form which is most forcible. Religion must lose its true character if it is dragged into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish...
BUFFALO BILL'S great Wild West Show comes to Boston on the tenth for a stay of two weeks. The show will be given in as complete a form as it was presented at Chicago during the World's Fair. It presents the greatest series of accurate pictures of frontier life ever conceived and is veritably history related by the men who made...
...words of the advance agent, the show has many times traversed the Atlantic; it was the crowning feature at the great Carnival in London in commemoration of the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria; it disputed with the Eiffel Tower the palm for interest and success at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889; it traversed Europe, crossed the Alps and the Pyrenees, and camped beneath the walls of the Alhambra and within the vast interior of the Colosseum at Rome. Princes, potentates and powers have all been guests at its tables and have learned the lessons...
...cases of demoniacal possession mentioned in the New Testament were doubtless cases of insanity. The one mentioned in the text was especially violent, and was regarded with a kind of superstitious veneration peculiar to the East. When the man was healed of his infirmity, he wished to show his devotion to Jesus and to follow him as a disciple. He was restrained, however, and when the Gadarenes, being afraid of Christ, asked him to leave them, the convert was left behind as his witness. The man remained, and spent the rest of his life preaching the Gospel to the Gadarenes...