Word: take
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...College papers; or, if we choose to do so, for the sake of truth let no one write an article on a religious or controversial subject without an extended course of reading on both sides of the question which he purposes to handle. Let us at least take this precaution against the increase among us of the shallower and more flippant kind of scepticism...
...very much to be regretted that some active measures have not been taken to destroy the canker-worms which have appeared in such myriad numbers upon the elms in the College Yard. These trees, in which we justly take so much pride, are being stripped of their verdure, and by Class Day, instead of their usually abundant foliage, they will present nothing but withered leaves and barren branches. A lack of shade, should that day be a sultry one, together with worms swinging from every branch, liable at any moment to find a temporary lodgement on the passer-by, will...
...trees of the pest. Why an offer of this kind, since there would be little or no expense to the College, should not be gladly accepted is hard to conjecture. It would be well for the Juniors, "by and with the advice and consent of the Faculty," to take precautions early, lest the Yard may present a similar sorry appearance on their Class...
EASTERN colleges are making much ado about boating. A boat race will take place July 17, at Springfield. - Irving Union...
...Arlington Street Church, Boston, was thinly attended for several years, until the Rev. Mr. Ware consented to take the pulpit, when he infused his own spirit into the people and filled the church to overflowing. The Rev. Mr. Alger crowds the Music Hall to its third gallery, preaching with an eloquence of thought and diction which is rarely equalled either in this country or in Europe. It is well known in Cambridge that the Rev. Phillips Brooks draws the students to him "with one consent" whenever he is announced to address them, whilst in his own church he has more...