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...these days an easy job. The minister must love his work and rejoice in it. He must also have the faculty of inspiring other people with the same enthusiasm. He must be able to work with other people as well as for them. He must have a gift of speech, not necessarily of eloquence, but at least of persuasiveness, for it is his business to persuade others to do what otherwise they might not do. Every week he has the opportunity to present a subject to his congregation for their consideration. He is responsible not only for the choice...
...letter from Premier Briand to President Lowell accompanied the gift of the French Government, and is included in the exhibit. The translation of the letter, made public last night at the University, is as follows...
...Another gift to the University, from an anonymous donor, provides for the establishment of a new scholarship of $250, to be awarded annually to a needy Boston boy in his Freshman year at the University. It is to be named the Mitchell Freiman Scholarship in memory of Mitchell Freiman '01, and is to be assigned preferably to a boy from the West End, nominated by the governing head of the West End House. This scholarship will be available next year...
...Sophomore Smoker, $311.85 Second Sophomore Smoker, 279.85 Student Council dues 1920-21, 30.00 Student Council dues 1921-22, 20.00 Flowers for funeral of class member, 12.00 Decorations for 1923 Freshman Jubilee, 26.00 Printing: Ballots and Posters, 1920, 7.00 Printing: Ballots and Posters, 1921, 16.75 Sophomore Scholarship to 1924, 400.00 Gift to first baby in class, 50.00 1153.45 Total Expenditures, 1153.45 Balance in bank...
...York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with...