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Reports read by the officers of the constituent societies and by the chairmen of the various committees showed the direction and amount of growth in the work of the Association during the past year. The thirteen reports submitted last night are printed below almost in full...
...that at last they have taken active steps to see whether or not we cannot be sure that each day will call men to chapel to hear a man whom the undergraduates want to hear. I think that nothing proves more conclusively the wisdom of this attempt than the almost enormous attendance which greets Professor Palmer and President Lowell and the others who are chosen to lead the services during early weeks of the college year. This step toward careful and judicious selection of preachers was conceived in the early meetings of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet, and has been...
Nevertheless Moliere's writings had a far-reaching influence upon the doctrines of contemporary medical men, and all his ideas in this respect have triumphed. Moliere dared to attack, even the most famous doctors and in almost all cases he showed that with perfect reasoning they were apt to base their theories on false diagnoses. Moliere knew human nature and depicted it truthfully and it was through this power combined with his hatred of the doctors and their methods, that Moliere did so much to raise the science of medicine and save humanity from contemporary abuses...
...first quarter of an hour Cornell succeeded in holding Harvard. But after the first goal, shot by Baker, the University began to press the Ithacans, and only occasionally were the latter able to carry the ball into dangerous territory. Almost immediately after Baker's goal, Lynch of Cornell secured his team's only score after a corner kick. Harvard again tallied in this period on Jennings' rush from the centre of the field...
...meeting the test so laid down. Mr. Gannet's "Impressions of Berlin University" give us an unusually intimate picture of German student life. His observations are pointed and keen; indeed, such ones as, "The German is perpetually hungry," and, "Akademische Freiheit is the Veritas of the German University," are almost epigrammatic. There is also novelty in Mr. Lockwood's chronicle of his semi-scientific hunting trip in Alaska, though his account suffers somewhat from lack of detailed description and incident. The series of articles on customs in different colleges is represented by one this month on Massachusetts Agricultural College...