Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday forenoon was given to papers by various delegates, followed by discussions on the reception of new students, the advantages of an association room, the prayer meeting, the Bible training class, and the missionary meeting. The Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., of Boston, gave an address on the use of the Bible in Christian work. Mr. W. C. Douglass, secretary of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Associations, spoke of the relation of the college Y. M. C. A. graduate to his home association. Rev. Richard Montague, of Providence, spoke in the evening. His topic was, "Christ the Completer...
PHILOSOPHY. (Including Ethics and Aesthetics). 1. A criticism of Shaftesbury's Theory of Ethics. (See Shaftesbury's "Inquiry concerning Virtue.") 2. The Philosophy and Limitations of Painting. 3. The use of the pointed Arch in Gothic architecture. Was the pointed arch an importation from the East, or a result of the constructive exigencies of vaulting? 4. A comparison of Titian and Rembrandt as colorists. 5. The employment of figure sculpture as an adjunct to architecture in Italy and France respectively. 6. Has Psychology profited to any appreciable extent by the discoveries made in the anatomy and physiology of the brain...
...school of Protectionists. "The Evidence of History' is interesting in comparison with the work of Prof. Dunbar in the same line. The eloquence of the speaker is necessary to give force to the subject matter of the lecture on the Workingman. As a whole, the work makes the best use of the arguments at hand, but there is an element of sophisty in the treatment of the weaker points in the subject...
...freshman lacrosse team went into training yesterday. As the cage is in use every afternoon by other teams the freshmen will be unable to practice there...
...lets his legs wobble, and does not sit up to his work. He hurries his finish. No. 5 lets his shoulders fly up when he rows them back. He swings back too far and keeps his outside wrist curved. His stroke is rather short, and he does not use his legs hard enough. No. 4 swings back too far and settles. He ought, to stop and row his shoulders back. He tries to do too much work with his legs and slaps them down too hard, and too far, jarring the boat. No. 3 keeps his inside arm bent...