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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel Dr. Peabody opened the Vesper Services with prayer. Rev. Dr. McKenzie followed with a short address on God's manner of fulfilling his promises. He said: When young men start out in life they know that perseverance and industry will bring them success, but this success may be far different from what they anticipated. There are many professors here today who entered college with no thought of teaching, but God saw fit to open up for them this life of usefulness and renown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 2/20/1891 | See Source »

...successful life may be from a worldly point of view a failure. Success does not mean riches and renown; it means rather the fulfillment of God's purpose. This purpose may be at variance with ours, but the more we let it enter our lives, the more truly shall we achieve success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vesper Service. | 2/20/1891 | See Source »

...Annex does not confer degrees, but instead a certificate stating that the student has pursued with success a four years' course of study, such as would be accepted for the degree of A. B. in Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Annex. | 2/19/1891 | See Source »

...would be interesting to know to what the success of the Israelites in solving the great problem was due. The rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Toy's Lecture. | 2/18/1891 | See Source »

...Ninety-two class dinner, which took place at the Parker House last night, was th most largely attended and successful junior dinner for many years. As the first social meeting of the whole class it was an unqualified success. The officers of the dinner were: President, Neal Rantoul; orator, H. McK. Landon; poet, D. Gray; toast-master. A. M. White; and chorister, L. S. Thompson. The oration and poem were both unusully good, and the responses to the toasts were in no way behind them. Following are the toasts drunk, with the men who responded to them: 'Varsity Crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Junior Dinner. | 2/17/1891 | See Source »

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