Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the Young Men's Christian Association at their rooms in Lawrence Scientific School. Mr. A. A. Berle, Gr., addressed the meeting on the "New Life," showing how necessary it was for the student class to take up the work of religion. After Mr. Berle's short talk a good part of the meeting was given up to devotion, different members offering prayer. The president then read reports from Amherst and Oberlin colleges, showing very satisfactory results of the work done there. At Oberlin especially the religious feeling is pretty thoroughly permeated through the college by means of five...
...Watson-Taylor who rowed on the Cambridge University crew in 1878, and is now living in New York, has been in town several days looking at the crew. Tuesday night Mr. Watson-Taylor had a talk with the crew on the theory of rowing and explained the present mode of rowing in England. There is an almost absolute similarity between the principles of rowing in England and in Yale and Harvard. There are some points of difference; all Englishmen are agreed that the slide and body swing ought to go together both in the stroke and in the recover...
President Gilman recently had a talk with the students on the outlook for athletics at Johns Hopkins. A committee of graduate and undergraduate students was appointed to take charge of the gymnasium until the appointment of a new director to succeed Dr. Hartwell and to represent the students in any differences that might arise...
...Poverty." Mr. Brooks is one of the instructors in Political Economy this year, and in addition to being a careful student of social subjects, is an interesting and attractive speaker. He will discuss the Salvation Army scheme for abolishing poverty in England, about which there has been so much talk in England and in this country. We hope that, notwithstanding the pressure of the examinations, he will have a large audience...
JOSEPH HOWLAND HUNT, Treas. H. A. A.HASTY PUDDING CLUB.- There will be a smoke-talk this evening at 8 o'clock...