Word: turn
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...weekly and daily study. This number includes those men enrolled in both the dormitory groups and church Sunday schools, there being about 300 of the former and 100 of the latter. The groups meet weekly in the various dormitories and are led by graduates and undergraduates, who in turn are coached in the normal courses led by Dean Hodges and Professor J. H. Ropes on "The Life of Christ" and "The Social Significance of the Teachings of Jesus." Professor Ropes course meets Tuesdays at 6.30 in the Randall Room and Dean Hodges' course on Wednesdays at the same hour...
...Carter '00 in India, and has helped in placing some ten other men in missionary work in foreign countries. Now that Mr. Carter has returned to this country to be in charge of the Y. M. C. A. student department in the United States, the mission will turn its energies to new work. Plans have been nearly completed for a new undertaking. It is expected that in May Mr. Jacob Riis will give a lecture in the Union on the present condition of the slums in New York, in order to acquaint those men who are to live...
...University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take charge of a newly constructed railroad at Burlington. Coming east again he took charge of some iron mills in Maryland, where he remained till he enlisted. As captain in the sixth Massachusetts cavalry he was ordered to Virginia, where he was given...
...reviewing the dormitory rowing of the fall, it is discouraging to notice that the bumping races were not so popular as last year, which in turn fell off considerably from the previous year. In 1905 when the dormitory was chosen as a unit for a system of scrub rowing, the novelty of the plan had much to do with its immediate popularity. In the second year of its existence twenty crews competed in the races, while this fall only twelve crews rowed. Several dormitories or dormitory groups hitherto represented were not able to get out crews either form a lack...
...time of Louis Fourteenth, and deals with a family of actors, father, son and grandson. The grandfather, who is a very old man, has renounced the stage and become infatuated over the subject of religion. He refuses to allow his grandson to go upon the stage and tries to turn him into a soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst of fury, he is forgiven and awarded...