Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success immediately. Above all, it will be a mistake to relax the effort in case it should not meet with immediate success. An important object of the change is to reach out beyond the narrow limits of the present debating set, and gradually attract men who are not now thought of as debaters...
...power. During the last few years there have been various schemes for bringing the different men and interests of the University together. No practical result has as yet come of this scheming and the conclusion arrived at by most of those who have given the matter much thought, is that the best way to unite the interests of the University is by means of a University Club; which shall be the place where all matters dealt with by the students are carried on. The fact that the men must meet here on business will lead to social intercourse. I mean...
...Memorial Church has been lately reorganized. The class is an old one, having been active before the present pastor took up his work. It has been at various times under the guidance of Dr. McKenzie, Professor Thayer, and others well fitted to teach in the broad spirit of contemporary thought...
...Radcliffe College, and other young people not connected with either. The class has done good work in the past, and it is hoped that any Harvard students who desire to study the literary aspects of the Bible in the light of all that is best in modern scholarship and thought, will ally themselves with it. The meetings are held at the close of the morning service in the students' transept of the church...
...unaccountable feeling on the part of some of the graduate promoters of the scheme, that the undergraduates did not heartily wish such a club. We are at a loss to explain this feeling, and it seems to us that beyond doubt the great majority of the undergraduates, who have thought about the matter at all, are heartily in favor of it. If there is any hesitation it has come from a fear that the plan would not be pushed, rather than a lack of confidence in the merits of the plan itself...