Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting held in Phillips Brooks House last evening E. C. Carter '00, G. M. Fisher and F. S. Brockman, national secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association, in India, Japan and China, respectively, spoke on the changed political and social conditions in the Far East, the unusual opportunity now presented for educational and missionary work there, and the part that Harvard men may take in supplying this demand. R. H. Bollard '05, described the plan that has been formulated for arousing general interest in the situation in the East, for sending men from the University to do educational...
...College year was held last evening in Appleton Chapel. Rev. Professors Peabody and Fenn conducted the devotional exercises, and Rev. Professor Francis Brown delivered the sermon, speaking from the text: "Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." He was followed by Bishop Lawrence, who spoke briefly on religion as part of the normal and natural life, neglect of which by the college man must mean irreparable loss. Indifference to religion by the college man is due, he said, not so much to doubts or to sin as to the habit of drifting...
President Eliot then spoke on the place in the University of the Chapel, which, he said, teaches a unique lesson in Christian unity. For twenty-three years there has been no question here of ecclesiastical polity or government, no ritual--none of the things which create religious division. Many people may ask whether religion can remain where these things do not exist. What remains is freedom, the very breath of the University life! But more, "Here abideth faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." Religion, as the prophet Micah defined it, remains here. "What doth...
...meeting for candidates for the Freshman football team held last evening in the Assembly Room of the Union. 120 men handed in their names. Captain Hurley, Head Coach Wrightington and Trainer McMaster spoke briefly. S. Powel '08, has been appointed manager of the team...
...Pasteur Medal, read: "Resolved, That the complete secularization of public education in France would be for the best interests of the country." The Senior team consisted of E.W. Baker, F.W. Catlett., and N. Pereles. The Sophomore team was made up of A.W. Blackwood, J.W. Plaisted, and M. Kabatchnick, who spoke in place of W.W. Corlett who was forced to resign on account of illness. The debate was awarded to the Sophomores, who treated the question from a broader and yet more practical point of view. The Pasteur medal was awarded to Kabatchnick...