Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Professor Cooke took his audience on a delightful trip through the old University city of Oxford. Professor Cooke had a charming selection of views, and by the end of the evening the audience had become quite familiar with the old walls and towers of the university. The lecturer began with Magdalen College with its well-known tower and old stone pulpit out of doors. He then took his audience to the northern part of the city, passing through that part of the city containing University, Brazenose, St. Mary's, Queen's and New College. Some charming views were...
...Union Club is consequently over four hundred dollars in debt. We cannot understand the reason of this deficit. Either the officers of the various clubs which agreed to subscribe have been abominably lazy in not collecting, or the members have been utterly blind to their obligations. A charitable view would be that the members have not thoroughly understood the matter. We hope that the state of affairs is now plain enough before them. The college will not be disposed to look kindly on the clubs if they refuse longer to pay their honest debts...
...first man to start a school for training men to take charge of the various Y. M. C. A. gymnasiums. And this idea is taking root all over the country, that a college-bred man is better able to influence young men, not only from an athletic point of view, but also from the religious stand-point...
...meeting of the Free Wool Club on Friday an amendment to the constitution will be considered with a view to changing the name and object of the club...
...next view was the Cathedral at Gloucester on the Seavern, whose walls are of the old Norman style and which the monks rebuilt from the offerings made at Edward the Second's tomb...