Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Monitors and professors are to use the bell-punch. Each student, at the beginning of the year, will be provided with prayer slips and recitation slips, which will be duly punched, and must be shown to every one who demands...
LAST Friday was such a day as the Class of '79 deserved to have for their Class Day. At 9.30 the class assembled in front of Holworthy, and marched to the Chapel, where prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Peabody. At about 11.30 the exercises in Sanders Theatre began. After the prayer by Dr. Peabody, Mr. Henry Coolidge Mulligan, of Natick, the orator of the day, was introduced. His oration was thoughtful and vigorous. Without overstepping the bounds of his subject, he contrived to make the time-worn theme fresh and interesting, and to say something which the members...
CHURCH and prayer certificates are due next Monday...
...didst thou hope, too, perfidious one, to steal away from me? Cruel one, wilt thou fly from me? If ever thou sawest any beauty in my face, if yet there is any room for prayer, I implore thee, stay, O stay, and hold my head...
...Howlers," having for its object "the production and consideration of diaphragmic undulations, together with that of the harmonious combination of infernal detonations. Its meetings are to be held nocturnally, when all more sluggish mortals are wrapt in slumber." A correspondent complains that the time allotted to the class prayer-meetings is taken up by remarks from ambitious young speakers, instead of by prayers. He tells us of one case where the prayer-meeting actually broke up after only two prayers! and of another "in which the speaker made a long argument for conversion when every one of his hearers...