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...Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs in giving a concert for the benefit of the Union a short time ago. This concert added a substantial sum to our needy treasury and emphasized again the spirit of help fulness in the University to which the Prospect Union has never appealed in vain...
Greatest among those whom we must emulate is Jesus Christ. He came and left, but only that He might come again. We must reproduce his spirit, not by vain yearnings after ideals, but by act and deed...
...appeal has come from the Superintendent of the Chinese Sunday School in Boston for twenty-five more teachers from Harvard. Every week between thirty and forty Chinamen ask in vain for some one to teach them, and their disappointment discourages many others who would otherwise be regular pupils...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...
...early as 600 B. C. there was great funeral display, which Solon and other later rulers tried in vain to check. The earliest form of monument was a simple tablet, which later is found elaborately carved. They usually contain the names of the person to whom the monument is erected, his father, and those who set up the tablet. As the stones become more elaborate we find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow...