Word: student
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student not having the celebrated "Thistle Edition" of Robert Louis Stevenson's works can obtain one on very easy terms by addressing X, CRIMSON. Also a very choice edition of Victor Hugo, gilt tops. One hundred photogravures, bound in three-quarter extra morocco binding, only $1.00 per month. Also the complete works of Bulwer, Dickens, Dumas, Waverly, Eliot, Thackeray, Irving, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Hawthorne, bound in the same elegant style on similar easy terms. Also a magnificent set of the "Arabian Nights," unexpurgated, very rare...
Whereas our late fellow student, Abel Maynard Rice, just as he was finishing his scholastic preparation for the great work of the Christian ministry, was taken from our midst by death-an event which seemed untimely, inasmuch as he was called from the field while entering it full of hope, and equipped with a liberal education, a sympathetic appreciation of the highest and noblest, and an ambitious spirit to best serve his day and generation...
Weekly consultation hours were arranged when any student could advise with the director as to how he could best take a hand in benevolent work. Through the director's knowledge of the intricate net-work of Boston Charities, and his understanding as a graduate of Harvard of the conditions under which students must engage in philanthropic activity, the men have been helped to make a wise choice of work. The interviews with the director are personal and confidential, and the resulting choice of work by the student is influenced by many considerations as to his situation, his tastes...
Entertainments by "troupes," -the "Vocal Troupe," the "Sleight-of-Hand Troupe" and the "Student Volunteer Orchestra," -have been given in institutions where monotony or suffering makes such diversions peculiarly welcome-the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, the Boston Insane Hospital, the Suffolk County Parental School (truant school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Lyman school (state reform school), the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, and other institutions...
Twice a year conferences are held of the students actually engaged in these different lines of work. Men tell what they have been doing. These gatherings have met at the homes of Professor Peabody and Profossor Palmer. The varied experiences of the students have been full of pathos and reality, and have revealed, as nothing else could, the nature and value of this Student Volunteer work...