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...more to the Sunday evening theatre services, and the great help that Harvard men can give by leading in the singing there. These services are meeting with even greater success than they did last year, and the attendance has been encouraging in every way. There is still a pressing need of volunteers to take part in the singing and help in other directions. It is a very philanthropic object, and the success of these services would surely repay any little work that one can do for them...
...appointments of President Francis Walker of the Institute of Technology as orator, and of Mr. Morris Thompson as poet, of the Phi Beta Kappa exercises for this year, are very satisfactory. President Walker is too well known to need any words of explanation, and his scholarly attainments admirably fit him for the place of orator. While Mr. Morris Thompson is not so well known, perhaps, he is nevertheless a man of marked ability and learning and will make an excellent choice for poet. Certainly these two positions could not be filled by better representative...
...gratifying to see the project now taken hold of systematically by the classmates of Phillips Brooks. Circulars have been drawn up under the direction of Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, secretary of the class of '55, stating in full the need and appropriateness of the proposed building and calling for voluntary subscriptions. These circular letters, together with clippings from the various papers containing articles relative to the subject, will be sent to all the living graduates of Harvard and every effort will be made to push the scheme through successfully...
This Memorial should include the erection of Phillips Brooks House, costing, say, $100,000 and dedicated not only to the comfort and succor of all in the college world who are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness or any other adversity, but also to that joyous and rich life he always preached. It should be made the house and workshop for all forms of spiritual activity, benevolent action and religions aspiration in the University. To do this as he would do it, will take not less than $8,000 per year for its maintenance in full and free operation. It should...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...