Word: shows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trials of candidates for the 'Varsity Banjo Club, held Monday and Tuesday evenings brought out an abundance of good material. The ten men taken on for further trial all show considerable ability and can doubtless be worked into a good club. The new men must call at 2 Hilton's at 7 o'clock this evening, for their new music, as rehearsals will begin almost immediately...
...illustrating the vegetable products useful to man. Thus space will be afforded for the illustrations which are designed to exhibit all of the relations of plants to each other and to their surroundings. Probably it will require at least two years more for the installation of the specimens which show the effect of differences in soil and exposure upon the forms of plants...
...Jesus show his pity for the poor, their hunger, their ignorance, and their lack of leaders? He had no patent remedy, no ingenious social reform schemes. He said: "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into the harvest." That is the only way to save the poor. There must be laborers and the labor is for college men. Will Harvard stand forth to its own glory for truth and justice and pity for the poor, or will it to its everlasting shame shrink back and let the poor take care of themselves...
...every Sunday about 1250 poor boys gather to listen to him as chaplain of the Polytechnic School. Apart from other work, however, he is president of the "Grindewald Conferences," which last summer numbered 2500 of the most prominent religious leaders of all denominations from Europe and America. He will show in his address the need of this union and the essential points on which all Christians agree. It can not but be of interest to Harvard men, especially as it comes from one who has a very complete knowledge of the subject...
Harvard must meet this activity by a like increase of energy. There is but one way to do this and that is for every man here who has any ability at all in speaking to interest himself, and to show his interest by taking part in the competitive debates. We hope that there will be a very large number of candidates for the honor of representing the University in the contest with Princeton...