Word: speake
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...impossible as yet to speak authoritatively in regard to the result of the Yale-Princeton game. A meeting of the executive committee will probably be held to-day and a decision may be reached. The questions to be decided are two in number: - first, whether Yale made a touchdown, as is claimed, and second, whether the score of a game called on account of darkness, is valid or not. According to Mr. Harris' decision such a game must be declared a draw. Opinions on the result of this contest have been advanced by certain of the daily papers, these assertions...
...Moody will speak and answer questions on the subject "What must I do to be saved" at the Christian Association rooms in Lawrence Scientific School building to-day at 4 p.m. He will preach to-night and to-morrow night at 7.30 in Shepard Memorial church. All students are especially invited...
...fifth number of the Advocate appears to-day, with more than its usual amount of good reading. Three stories are among the contributions, which speak well for Harvard undergraduate work. The main story is a romance of American life, called "The Story of Gertrude Comstock," in which the composition and arrangement of the plot are peculiarly strong. The style is more of the old-fashioned simple sort, without the tiresome details of the present realistic tendency in literature. The two other tales, The Wanderings of Alexis II. and the Two Margarets are also vigorous and interesting. The verse contributions...
...seems rather remarkable that no attempt has been made by the preachers themselves to remedy it. Dr. Hale, however, on one occasion at least, made a brief comment on the scripture read. And here, I think, should be the place for the preacher's words, if he is to speak...
With the inauguration of Dr. Brooks as minister to the college, we think it fitting to speak of a matter which, although perhaps unexpressed, has been in the minds of many of us. We all feel it a great loss that at our daily morning services so little of the personality of the minister has a chance to express itself. We cannot gainsay the conviction that in the mere reading of the service, however beautiful it may be, to derive the full benefit of the noble soul and masterly mind of these men who so generously give up their time...