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...completely filled Appleton Chapel greeted Mr. Moody last evening on the occasion of his address to the students. Mr. Moody spoke earnestly and with rare power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop...
...Moody's sermon last evening in Appleton Chapel was in every sense awakening. It is seldom that words of such clear practical common sense are heard in even radical Harvard, and they sounded very welcome to all present. Mr. Moody will remain with the university during to-day and to-morrow. It is to be hoped that as many men as possible will hear him, since hardly too high praise can be given such telling words as his. Something is needed to stir many men from their lethargy of thought and few speakers are so well fitted to accomplish just...
...hasten to express my acceptance of the explanation given by Dr. Holmes. that only two lines of his poem relate to Princeton. As I heard him read, without the pronunciation now in his printed poem, I understood that the following four lines referred to Princeton...
...play and the muse had refused to say anything more, Dr. McCosh quietly took his departure and boarded the next train for Princeton. He was as indignant as a Scotchman who thinks he has cause to be generally is, and when his friends and fellow-workers at the college heard the version of all that had happened at Harvard's celebration they were indignant, too, and extremely glad that Dr. McCosh had absented himself from the banquet that was designed to act as a sort of capstone to the celebration...
...have heard much complaint about the unexpected apparition of an hour examination in Political Economy 1 to-morrow. The seniors, it is well known, are just recovering from the celebration, and most of their time is taken up with their forensics, which are due a week from to-day. It may seem to be asking too much of the instructor to take into account all such little matters, but it is rather surprising to see an examination announced upon such short notice. We suppose, however, that the elective system is open to just such little surprises as these...