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LECTURE by Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson. Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson of Concord is to lecture at the Prospect Union this evening at eight o'clock. His subject will be, "The Lesson of the Soldier-a story of the Civil War." He will give an account of the life of Charles Russell Lowell. The lecture is open...
...methods of the Salvation Army are most efficient.- (a) Their "soldiers" are the best possible for such work.- (1) They best know the conditions of life among which they work.- (x) They are themselves redeemed souls.- (2) They best can sympathize with the sufferers.- (3) Their entire lives are devoted to their task.- (4) Their enthusiasm is genuine and voluntary.- (x) No one is compelled to join the army.- (y) Any soldier can withdraw at any time.- (5) Obedience is absolute and willing: Booth, pp. 242, 243.- (b) Methods are most direct.- (1) Soldiers come into closest and most intimate...
...only ones that reach the classes of people among whom they chiefly work.- (a) Other methods, as of charitable societies public and private fail to reach this lowest stratum.- (1) They are regulative rather than preventive.- (x) They relieve suffering rather than remove the causes.- (b) The soldier alone is willing to tackle the evil in the places of its origin.- (c) The Army methods alone seem able to stir up the most hardened to better lives.- (1) Such people can be roused only by strong appeals to their emotions, such as (x) stirring music; (y) personal pressure; (z) enthusiastic...
...believe, therefore, that by proper search and presentation of the plan, some benefactor can be found to whom this most popular of objects will appeal-one who, like Mr. Hemenway, who gave the Gymnasium, or Mr. Higginson, who gave the Soldier's Field, will desire to witness during his lifetime the enjoyment of his generosity by others. As the numbers at Harvard are greater than at any other American university, so is the need greater for an institution which shall unite the various human interests of the students and establish closer relations between the alumni and Alma Mater...
...Louvre, Mr. William Wolff; Valentine, his daughter, Miss Clara Lane, Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys; Count de Nevers, Mr. J. K. Murray; Cosse, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Thore, Mr. John Read; Retz, Mr. Albert Regas, Raoul de Nangis, Protestant gentleman, Mr. Thomas H. Persse, Mr. Charles O. Bassett; Marcel, Huguenot soldier, servant of Raoul, Mr. W. H. Clarke; Urban, page to Marguerite, Miss Hattie Belle Ladd; Bois-Rose, Huguenot soldier, Mr. J. F. Hanshue; Maid of Honor, Miss Celeste Wynn...