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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Wages of Sin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 3/14/1888 | See Source »

...GRAND OPERA HOUSE.- "Wages of Sin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 3/13/1888 | See Source »

...Holding in the line," always the most besetting of foot-ball sins and the most prolific cause of slugging in the past, has been kept in wonderful check this year, if any comparison be made with former years; but it may still be called a pet sin, and some of the points scored on the Polo Grounds this year were certainly accomplished through its agency. But fortunately the result of none of the games was apparently affected thereby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/6/1888 | See Source »

...come from no other source. It may be awakened from contact with the world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that it is the cardinal sin of the calendar is a matter of doubt. Such it is regarded here; and it has become a common saying among those who have never been benefitted by our civilization that "a Harvard man is so afraid of doing something which will make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Drummond's Lecture. | 10/12/1887 | See Source »

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