Word: sort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Nothing daunted a few energetic spirits went ahead, established the work, and persevered in it. The Union has grown and prospered, until now a very important work is being done and the field is constantly broadening and opening up new possibilities to the workers. It still asks the same sort of aid from the college that it did in the beginning, but the appeal has a very real force now. Harvard men cannot allow this work to be crippled by lack of money and of workers...
...debates of this year are only the beginning of an annual series. The friends of the two universities have long desired some such contest. It is well that there be a rivalry on this side of the college life as well as in athletics; that there be the same sort of stimulus to intellectual that there is to physical activity...
...games would have a sort of international coloring and the honor and glory of victory would count for more than they sometimes do in merely local sports. Such an institution would enable men to meet, and it would create a multitude of private interests and friendships, which would not be lost sight of or ignored whatever the course of politics might be. It would keep the feeling of kinship among those who speak the same language and have inherited the same customs. It would strengthen that healthy liking of out-door sports, which the British have alone maintained in Europe...
...sings at all can join the chorus. A second notice calling for volunteers is published this morning, and it is to be hoped that the response to it will be sufficient to insure a large chorus. Good singing is absolutely essential to the success of meetings of this sort. Men who sing have here a chance to do very material good with very small personal sacrifice. Harvard men should have a sort of personal interest in the success of the theatre services as they were the originators of them...
There is some complaint that the ringing of the bell for Vespers is not of the sort to attract attention. If one happens to be busy or some little distance from the Yard the sound of the bell does not reach one. Men who hardly ever missed a service last year have missed all but one or two this year. The attendance at these services, which for several years have been the most popular of all our religious services, has certainly fallen off this year. The decrease in attendance seems to be among the college men, and if this...