Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past master of literature; he had a strong and true appreciation in art, and he was instantly responsive to the appeal of music. All that he was and all that he acquired, he consecrated quietly and without ostentation to the service of mankind. His letters to his father show that in his early manhood there was manifested the same spirit which was to become constantly more prominent in his later years...
...said he was not there to dictate to the students; to bid them take up the sword and follow him into the fight; but simply to outline the war against evil, and to show the social principles of the Salvation Army. First he told of his own struggles, when he had taken his stand alone against the tide of poverty, disease and crime in the eastern part of London. The enterprise at first seemed to him desperate, the hope of making any head against such a sea of misery and vice was forlorn. With dauntless courage he resolved to make...
...speaker then went on to show how the movement had progressed. Men and women everywhere banded together in the form of a military army, in order to give the undertaking greater strength. Today, he said, the Salvation Army had a literature, a newspaper literature at any rate, that placed it at the head of all Protestant denominations...
...February 22 is a holiday the next meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club will be held on Friday, March 1, at 7.30 p.m. All men wishing to become members of the Wendell Phillips Club are invited to speak at this meeting. Those who show special ability will at once be recommended for membership, but any man can have his name brought before the club by speaking twice. Freshmen may compete the same as others with the exception that though elected now their membership will not begin till the next college year. The subject for debate will be: "Resolved, That...
...victory to win, and I would say to every man upon your team: Your splendid record has laid upon your sturdy shoulders another and a weightier duty. If you are to do a real and lasting service for the cause of athletics, and for your Alma Mater, you must show when you go out from her halls that there are moral and intellectual qualities which your training on the football field has fostered and strengthened. It is for you to show that as your limbs are stronger, so your minds are cleaner, your lives more sweet and wholesome. Then hold...