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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...text-book loan library, which is in its second year, has proved very successful. The object is to help men of small means by loaning them the books needed; in their courses. There were many demands for books not in the library, however, and a large number will still be needed to make the collection complete. Over 300 books have been added this year, given by members of the University, making a total of 700. Sixty-three men have made use of the library and 280 books have been loaned...
...social service work of the Association is becoming an increasingly important factor. The work has been divided into several departments, each having a chairman. The entertainment troupes, clothing collection, and the text-book loan library departments have made marked progress. The boys' club department has been further divided into volunteer probate work, children's home libraries, associated charities, teaching in various missions, and directing boys' clubs in settlement houses. These branches are under the supervision of the chairman of boys' club work, P. W. Carter...
...Mayo's story of "Robinson's Folly," illustrated the old text that he who makes money and nothing else is not a gainer. The story is well told...
Yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel Professor W. W. Fenn, S.T.B. '84, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the Senior class, his text being: When the young man heard the saying, he went away sorrowful for he was one that had great possessions...
...society in which they aim to be most highly useful members, college graduates ought to ally themselves with the church. But if their possessions of whatever sort they may be keep them from hearing and obeying Jesus's present call to loving discipleship, the tragedy of the text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that Christ would approve of one's life." There is no higher type of manhood, there is no better, more useful, more...