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...Saturday and Sunday the Y. M. C. A. convention of the colleges of New Jersey met here. Delegates were also sent by Yale and Lafayette. Considerable interest in the meeting seemed to be felt in a portion of the college. Dr. McCloud of Brooklyn preached a very powerful sermon in the chapel on Sabbath morning...
...book is witty, full of bright sayings and well adapted to quotation. The account of the sermon in the church at Dale is very amusing and familiar to every one who has ever heard an Orthodox minister of the old school...
Henry Ward Beecher preached a political sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., last night, strongly opposing the nomination of Folger for governor...
Active preparations for commencement are now being pushed on every hand, and the indications are that the week will be unusually attractive. The general programme for the week will be : Baccalaureate sermon by President Carter, Sunday, July 2; address before the Adelphic Union by President White of Cornell, on Monday evening; a memorial discourse on President Garfield by Dr. Hopkins Tuesday morning, followed by the unveiling of the Garfield memorial window which is to be placed in the chapel. Tuesday afternoon the class day exercises will take place. On Wednesday morning the graduating exercises will take place...
...however high his rank in class, will find there is only one employment - that of teaching - in which his college training alone, without a corollary of special study, will enable him to earn his living. He cannot put up a prescription or mend a chair, preach a sermon or shoe a horse, pull a tooth or play a super's part, without learning how; and his text-books have not taught him how. Whatever business or trade he may go into, he will find a crowd of youths, often the sons of wealthy men, learning as apprentices, from the very...