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...small number (about one fifth) of them fall on the same evening with business meetings; the rest of them are not intended to be exclusive, but are meant for all undergraduates who care to attend, on Monday evenings or any of the days set apart by the Episcopal Church, the Evening Service as appointed for that day. Cards giving a list of Services can be procured from' the Secretary, 41 Weld, or at the room of the Society, 17 Grays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...person will be admitted to the Church (before the Class), or to the exercises at the Tree, without a reserved seat; and no gentleman to Massachusetts Hall, the President's reception, or to the Yard in the evening, without a ticket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS-DAY, June 19, 1874. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...open the question of compulsory attendance at church, which undergraduates have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERMONS. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...dies ven it can't get nothink more! SCENE 6TH AND LAST: John Vesley a Preaching. - In the centre John is a standin' before a big stun, a declamin' agin the worldly bishops. In the foreground people a hollerin', "Down vith the Hestablishment!" vich means the Church of Hingland. On the right you vill hobserve his 'oss, a tied to a tree-box, a pawin' of the ground and a vishin' for his hoats; and on the extreme left the bishops from the races, a sittin' in the vaggon, vith their gownds on, a listenin', and a lookin' werry black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...useful an instrument as the axes of the Age of Stone. It is not required of our modern generals, before putting them at the head of our troops, that they should know how to shoot with a bow and arrow. Unhappily Latin is still the language of the Church, and priestly influence shows itself here as in everything else. What then? Do I wish to proscribe the study of Latin or Greek? Certainly not. I esteem Latin, not for the sake of speaking or writing it, but in order to enjoy the beauties of the Latin authors; I admire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »