Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...response to the call for teachers in the Chinese Sunday School in the Old Mount Vernon Street Church, seventeen men have sent in their names. There are still many Chinamen in the school without teachers, and the news that students from Harvard were coming to instruct them has largely increased the number. All men who would be willing to give their services are asked to send their names to E. von Mach, 18 Bowdoin street, Cambridge...
While there was still a chance of defeating the measure, nobody opposed, it more vigorously than myself. Now, however, that the harm is done, I should think it would be wiser to accept the inevitable and to encourage, as far as possible, the club on whom there may shortly devolve the duty of maintaining the prestige of the University...
Yesterday the candidates for the freshman nine were coached by R. D. Wrenn '95. Besides the regular work they practiced stealing bases. About 30 men are still trying, some of whom have already begun to show decided improvement...
...committee feel that opportunities for valuable educational experience will be thrown open to every man who goes; for he will get a glimpse of the very lowest and most despised classes, and will see the sparks of good which are still glowing even there...
Going back still further we notice the predecessors of Reynolds and the vicissitudes through which they must have passed. Jean Rouquet in his "State of Art in England" shows how precarious was the condition of painters in those times. No encouragement was offered by the government, while the stern doctrines of the puritans forbade the decoration of churches by religious paintings. It was portraiture that came to the rescue and stood as the medium between failure and success...