Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Particular attention is called to the rule forbidding any but the committee and tellers to gather around the chairman's desk. Conformation to all the regulations is earnestly requested...
...years in fighting. He won victory after victory, taking all the natives who so wished into his service. After a time things did not go so well. He was defeated in a great battle. From that time onward his position was critical. He had never doubted being able to gather the chiefs of the country around him. Now he failed and was unable to relieve his garrisons. He made his way to Khartoum, which he proceeded to put in a state of defence. He had several little steamers on the river. These were made into floating batteries. Inside the fortifications...
...light of these two inscriptions let us gather together elements which inhere in the foundation and history of Harvard and see how they appeal to our sense of duty and privilege. Dedicated to Christ and the Church this their foundation...
...into the light as a matter of how many men attend chapel daily, or how many engage in organized charitable work. True devotion or true charity shrinks from the attempt to publish it abroad as ground for self-laudation, and there could be little other reason for trying to gather statistics of religious life among Harvard students...
...often to remember that they are present only because forced to be, and to forget the nature of the ceremonies in which they take part. Their behavior consequently loses its proper devotional character, and the entire service shows a harmful want of sincerity and earnestness. The students who gather each morning in Appleton Chapel, on the contrary, are there for a purpose of their own and not from any disagreeable necessity. They come because they wish to take part in the service, and accordingly do take part so earnestly that it becomes a real act of worship instead...