Word: shows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...club this year has taken great pains to have its exhibit a success. The pictures are hung to much better advantage than in former years, a special background being put up for the purpose. The pictures are all the result of the past summer's work, and show great activity on the part of the club members...
Everything is uncertain, and the chances of victory are very slight. It is a struggle against great odds, and is recognized to be such both here and by the general public. No opportunity could be more favorable for Harvard to show how courageous a spirit she can exhibit on occasion. It is not enough that Harvard should do well with the odds in her favor; but, rather, the heavier the odds against her, the greater ought to be her efforts. There is a feeling among outsiders that Harvard is lacking in grit to rise to great emergencies. An ill-founded...
...speaker quoted several authorities in the theological world to show the need that a student for the ministry has for a knowledge of the civil or general law. A minister who lacks this knowledge stands in danger of committing mistakes in the performance of the marriage ceremony, and in the pursuance of his duty as a guardian of church property and appropriations...
...enter there to look over Harvard's records is very large. One summer a record of the attendance was kept, and it was found that over four thousand strangers visited the room. Thus the room is, in a way, an important representative of the University. That it should show carelessness and indolence is an injury to the whole institution of which it forms a part...
...have been reduced to two crews. The training consists of rowing in the tank, daily runs, and exercise on the chest-weights and with dumb-bells. The first crew is doing fairly well, but there is a noticeable lack of interest about the second crew that is deplorable. They show a tendency to shirk their work and many of them fail to finish on the daily runs. However, the fact that they rowed the full stroke yesterday for the first time accounts in a measure for their general unsteadiness and irregularity. Both the crews dip too deep...