Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...there is no doubt that every Harvard organization which appears before the public of other cities and acquits itself with ability and gentlemanliness, awakens at least a beginning of friendly regard toward the whole University. In the vicinity of Philadelphia, cricket is very popular. In fact, nowhere in the United States is interest in the game so lively. The cricket matches which Harvard plays with the Pennsylvania and Haverford teams are made great events there, draw the of attention of very many people, and will always serve, if properly conducted, to bring Harvard into happy prominence before the minds...
...offer which Professor Norton has made to give to the students fragments from the college lectures of James Russell Lowell will be very welcome to them. The kindly interest in the students by which it was prompted will be a cause for great gratitude toward him. It is his purpose to put within reach of the students matter which shall be of both immediate and permanent value,- immediate, because the lectures will treat of questions still open, much discussed and of weighty import; permanent, because the words of the lectures will always have the ear of Harvard men and because...
...Gate-money. Can it be divided between the associations interested or the contestants? Can it be used toward the expenses of the visiting association? Within what limits can the expenses of teams or their members be borne, either by their own or the opposing association...
...scheme of life which Christ brought to the world was a system of prayer. Prayer is instinctive in man in times of peril and emergency. At such times it is universal; as natural to the poor heathen as to the Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach out toward God, that...