Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students of the University, as a whole, have accepted the responsibility toward religion which the voluntary system has laid upon them. In addition to the work of the religious societies, class prayer-meetings have been undertaken, and we are encouraged to believe that no young man need miss religious influence among us for lack of companionship or sympathy. On the other hand, we entirely appreciate that a considerable number of students have lived this year without any relation to our work, and we take the liberty of urging parental advice for our assistance. The religious life of the College cannot...
...Hale made a brief address, demanding the hearty co-operation of the students in the pleasure and duty of helping on the services. "Here in the midst of liberal ideas tending toward elective studies, there is one matter in which there is no option-the wish of the university that every freshman who enters this week goes forth four years hence better fitted to withstand the allurements of the world. What we all want is the confidence of the students...
...comes back to Harvard to find it in the flourishing condition which is due in a great measure to his own exertions There is every reason to suppose that Harvard will not slacken the pace which she has held during the earlier years of President Eliot's administration, toward advancement and emancipation from narrowing prejudices...
...Tree as it ought to. The class has gone to a great additional expense this year in bringing out the band from Boston for the third rehearsal. As the class has done so much as a whole, will not each member of it do his part toward making the class song a success? Be at the rehearsals at 7 sharp...
...Harvard at the end of the term of fourteen years. This being the state of affairs several of the officers of the intercollegiate association have received letters from a Mr. Parsons, of Minneapolis, who was one of the originators of the idea of a challenge cup, and gave something towards its purchase, saying that he did not intend the cup should ever become the property of any one college, but should remain as a perpetual challenge cup. Then, of course, search was made for the record of the resolution of the association which gives Harvard her claim...