Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...capacity for becoming benevolent, patient, humble, and loving, depends, however, in no way on the particular creed of the individual. In times past it was quite common to insist that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that...
...Executive Committee of the Association of the Alumni have formally requested the Senior Class to furnish nothing stronger than claret punch on Commencement Day. An answer has been sent, to the effect that the class of '80 does not entertain at Commencement this year, but is entertained by the class...
...tickets as far as possible to the Senior class. This is done according to the urgent advice of previous committees. Class Day seems in danger of losing its exclusive and private character, and threatens to become a general holiday. People living near the College make it a day for entertaining their friends. An exceptional case has been brought to the attention of the Committee, where a member of a lower class refused to give up his room for Class Day on the ground that he himself would entertain on that day. Tickets have sometimes been sold at open sale...
...Lake George Rowing Association sent a communication to the H. U. B. C. to the effect that if the H. U. B. C. would invite the Oxford and the Cambridge Crews to America, they would entertain them...