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...shall we see in all of this? No doubt it is possible enough to see no meaning, or to see low meanings in it. Possible enough to see no meaning, to think of it all as a long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of the vacant throne. If that is all, then nobody can guess at the future from the past. On into utter recklessness or back into a darker and severer superstition than any from which she has escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give...
...vacant lot just back of Holyoke is now used as a ball field at all hours of the day by base-ball enthusiasts...
...college, and to make a report which should include the subject of chapel attendance. At the session yesterday, only a part of the report was presented, - a recommendation that the Plummer Professorship of Christian morals be filled at once. As is well known, this chair has been vacant since the resignation of Dr. Peabody a few years ago; and as the religious services of the university having no one whose special business it was to look after them, have been somewhat irregular. It is to be hoped that filling this chair will deepen the religious feeling among the students...
...long as the lectures on the various professions are to be given in a hall wholly inadequate for the purpose, let us at least utilize all the space that is granted to us. There were a number of vacant seats last time, - vacant, not for want of occupants, but because men persistently refused to "move up." These seats were not situated near the aisles and consequently remained unoccupied. Thus through the inconsiderate selfishness of a few, many men were kept standing all the evening, when they might have had seats...
...Through the generosity of Hon. Henry J. Furber, '59, of Chicago, one of the vacant panels upon the south side of the chapel will soon be filled. The painting will be upon canvas, mounted on a movable stretcher, and will, undoubtedly, be finer than any of those which at present adorn the walls of King Chapel. Mr. Frederic Vinton, of Boston, one of the finest portrait painters in the country, will be the artist. The subject selected is "Adam and Eve," by Flandrin, one of the decorations in the church of Saint Germain des Pres, Paris. The original is regarded...