Word: talking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attention of men whom the midyears have kept away from morning chapel is called to the fact that Professor Lyon is each morning giving a most interesting talk on some one of the old characters in Hebrew history. The talks form a series of great value, and we recommend all who can to go to them...
...four games, winning the two games at Providence 6-1, 8-3, and losing the games at Cambridge 4-6, 3-6. Capt. Sexton is determined to make as good a showing this year if hard work and conscientious training will do it. After giving the men a short talk on the advantages of systematic training he laid down the following rules which must be strictly followed...
Bryn Mawr and Wellesley talk of organizing an intercollegiate athletic association...
Nine-tenths of the sins of the world are those of omission. Some men say that preachers talk too much about people's sins. These men assert that they have not broken any of the ten commandments during the week and that if the ministers do not stop telling that they are sinners they will not go to church. They may also show that the world is not so bad, in comparison to former times, as many think it. We no longer have to carry weapons; statistics show that crime is decreasing. But this satisfaction is almost entirely with regard...
Were the criticisms of the Edinburgh Review in its early days helpful or injurious, on the whole, to the development of literature? (Coleridge; Biographia Literaria, Chap XXI; Saintsbury; Essays in English Literature, Articles on Sydney Smith, Jeffrey; Hazlitt; Table Talk, Article on Criticism; Early Reviews, Camelot Series, Introduction...