Word: ages
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Early Christian Church, before the S. Paul's Society, Wednesday evenings during Lent. The first lecture will be given Wednesday next, March 13, at 7 P.M. All are invited to be present. The subjects of the lectures are: 1. The Preparation for the Christian Church. 2. The Apostolic Age. 3. The Martyrs. 4. The Apologists. 5. The Councils...
...writer (or perhaps writers) of the article in your recent issue, entitled "A Progressive Age," satirized, as far as he was able, pretty much everything in a rather bitter way. He ended up by favoring us with his views on the Philosophical Society that has been started by some who elect that branch of study. He evidently laughs at the idea of it, as he appeared to do at that of all societies and clubs of which he is not a member; for instance, the Art Club, the Telephone Society, and perhaps others could be mentioned...
...improvement of this department of the University that the attention of the governing boards may be most profitably directed. In all probability it will ultimately be found desirable to organize a Department or Faculty of Philosophy, which shall bear to the College, as regards the age and standing of its students, the same relation which the professional schools of the University would bear to the College if (as will be the case at no very remote day) only Bachelors of Arts were admitted to them. It is not yet quite clear, however, of what elements such a body might best...
...know that in the existing order of things at Harvard there are many glaring inconsistencies. We all likewise hope that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more...
...classes in college, and the extreme narrowness of the means of ingress, a rush takes place every morning at the Chapel door. Now a rush is certain to please most of the members of the youngest class, and many of the members of the class next in point of age; but a rush is distasteful to the majority of the students, and is especially so if it involves a possibility of not getting into one's seat in time. The remedy is very simple, and, consisting as it does in merely unlocking the side doors of the Chapel, requires...