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...prophesy (from the sixth verse of the second chapter of the book itself.) Owing to his age his words would have great influence and his remembering the first temple would be a motive in his urging the building of a second. The prophecy was addressed to about two hundred thousand Jews, who, having returned from Babylon some years before, had become either indifferent to rebuilding the temple or discouraged. The style of the prophecy is abrupt, iterative and concise. The first chapter is addressed to the indifferent, the second Chap., verses one to nine, to the diccouraged, ten to nineteen...
...addition to the University. Professor Hayne, of the University of Vermont, began collecting funds in behalf of the Latin department last summer, and very shortly afterwards Mr. Gardner Lane lent his efforts towards the Greek department. These gentlemen have already secured $6,000 for the new library, and a thousand volumes at present rest on its shelves, which number will probably be tripled by the end of the year. A catalogue is being made and will shortly be put in place...
...which this association is to be run is admirable, and is bound to work well in practice. As a matter of fact, including what the men themselves pay, the yearly expenses for training table by three class crews, the freshman football, and the four 'varsity teams has been eleven thousand dollars. It is a question how much of this large sum has been pure profit divided among the boarding houses where the teams have trained. A very considerable portion, at any rate, of the money has been clear gain for the boarding houses; and by the new plan the teams...
Worcester Natural History Society is given the Conant residence in Worcester, valued at twenty thousand dollars, and also ten thousand dollars in cash on condition that the society give a series of lectures at Sterling, Mass., the native town of the testator; to the town of Sterling, six thousand dollars; to the First Congregational parish of Sterling fifteen thousand dollars; to the First Congregational parish of Sterling fifteen thousand dollars; for the support of a high school at Sterling twenty thousand dollars; to two homes for the aged, at Worcester, one thousand dollars each, and one thousand dollars...
...have been made by the friends of Harvard to raise the good reputation of the University and to make its true life better known to outsiders. Perhaps the most praiseworthy and successful of these efforts has been the distribution of the pamphlets called "Harvard's Better Self." Over ten thousand copies have been sent to Harvard men, clergymen and principals of schools in every State; and the good results have been widespread. These results are owing almost entirely to the work of the Christian Association which has labored with generous zeal for this purpose of doing good for our college...