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...same way as heretofore, and, in general, with results that have been satisfactory. The boys club and the free reading room in East Cambridge, which were started in place of a thorough college settlement at first proposed, have been, since last fall, enlarged in their equipment and scope of work, and are exerting a strong and beneficial influence in the district where they are located. The work of the philanthropic organizations in general is tending to strengthen the whole charity system of the Christian Association by bringing home to its members the co-relation of religion and social service...
...Observatory is handicapped by insufficient buildings, and by a lack of proper instruments. It ranks among the greatest observatories of the world because of the scope and the general value of its scientific investigations...
...East Cambridge is the most recent philanthropic institution founded by the Christian Association. The 70 books bought a few months ago have been added to by numerous gifts, and a very good juvenile library of about 430 volumes has been collected at the reading-room. Perhaps to the scope of the influence and work of the reading-room no better testimonial is needed than the fact that its membership roll of 250 was made up almost immediately and that 75 children are now on the waiting list. A reading club and an athletic club, under the direction of Harvard...
This occasion of the "draught of fishes" was not the first time Jesus had met Simon Peter and his companions. There on the shore of Galilee he had found them before and talked with them, but they, never realizing the scope and meaning of his message, had heard, and gone back, as though nothing had happened, to their old way of life. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught," he said...
...ultimately brought about during the years from 1826 to the present time. Although this country, through the state of Massachusetts, was very early committed to the maintenance of secondary schools supported partly or wholly by taxes, it took nearly two hundred years before the new conception of the scope and meaning of public secondary education had been evolved. This new conception was a share in the elements of liberal culture and in useful knowledge and appropriate mental training for the duties and refined pleasures of life through an enlarged and more flexible programme of studies. This was administered...