Word: successful
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After the address Mr. Field spoke very strongly in favor of the foundations of a club for the poor in Boston in connection with the St. Pauls Society. The English Universities have founded such clubs and have had great success. The support of such a club would probably cost...
There is an article on the proposed intercollegiate regatta at the World's Fair which is interesting and which contains information new to most of us. The author says "The management is making great effort to secure entries from the leading American and English Universities, and hopes for success. The regatta will probably take place in August, late enough to allow Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania crews to recuperate after their annual engagements." The fiction and the poetry of the number are of very much the same nature as usual...
...sacrifice are the two chief characteristics of the apostles, and if we would live like them we must be zealous in religion and we must learn to sacrifice ourselves. There are two kinds of zeal, one blind and uninstructed, and one according to knowledge. Headlong zeal will never bring success in anything, whether it be business, study, or religion, but we must try to be zealous in religion by learning what Christ would have us do, by being with him and by putting ourselves under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. If we would follow Christ we must be ready...
...make this thing a success, Ninety-four should turn out in a body and let its class loyalty be known. Every effort will be made to have the dinner a thoroughly unpartisan affair. For the time being, at least, all will meet on a common level and the grouping of men by cliques will be avoided as far as possible. The committee is anxious that a feeling of comradeship should prevade the dinner. At no time in the history of the class has Ninety-four had a chance to unite as one body, with one interest. This dinner should...
...literature, perhaps geography, let him come into personal contact with nature and absorb her truths. Above all, he ought to be made to appreciate that all studies are linked together, that there is only one knowledge, and that the possession of that knowledge means all to him both for success and for high living...