Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...base-ball season was opened yesterday with a game whose chief interest was in the fact that it was the first game. Of course, from the scores we can make no prophecies for the future. It is enough for us to say that the freshmen showed good material, and promise to do credit to Harvard. The varsity has a good example before it in the unprecedented record of last year...
...real adversary of the public school system, an adversary whose opposition is avowed, positive and usually logical is the Catholic denomination - in its clergy, for left to themselves the laity would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...
...friendly ones whose lengthy calls we hardly dare resist...
...Studd whose meetings this week have been very interesting and largely attended, will hold his last meeting tonight in Holden from 6.30 to 7.15. He will also give a Bible Reading in the rooms of the Christian Brethren from 1.30 to 2 p.m. A cordial invitation to attend these meetings is extended to all members of the university...
...terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time of Lucy Downing to Mrs. Sever...