Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christian religion, properly so called, for the revelation which Jesus Christ, the Son of God was pleased to make, first by Himself and afterwards by His Holy Apostles, to His Church and the world for their salvation, Rt. Rev. Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. (The front pews will be reserved for members of the university until...
...DUDLEIAN LECTURE FOR 1890Will be delivered on Thursday, October 23, in Appleton Chapel, at 7.30 p. m. The lecturer will be the Rt. Rev. Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. His subject will be on the second prescribed by the Founder, as follows: For the confirmation, illustration, and improvement of the great articles of the Christian religion, properly so called, or the revelation which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was pleased to make, first by Himself and afterwards by His Holy Apostles, to His Church and the world for their salvation...
...hardly conceive of a more unfortunate step in the educational world than such a significant and conspicuous lowering of the standard of the higher liberal education would be at the present time. The one thing more needful than any other in the whole business, social and political world of America, is a broad, generous and leisurely liberal education for its young men preparing for active life. To lower the standard of liberal culture, and above all for the movement for its reduction to come from those bodies which should be its friends, would be deplorable in its moral effect throughoutthe...
...Harvard student is convinced that four years are necessary for the development of sufficient culture to withstand the lowering influence of the Philistinism which prevails in America. And, as matters now stand, men of the most average ability can easily graduate in three years if they want to. Seven '91 men graduated last June with '90. But investigation proves that six of those men are here this year again, taking the very courses that they might have taken as seniors. Does that prove that Harvard students are in a hurry to get away...
Valuable also are Minister Romero's concluding article on the Pan-American Conference and E. L. Godkin's "Key to Municipal Reform." Michael Davitt discusses the tendencies of labor in Great Britain; ex-President. White of Cornell adds an article to the much debated question of higher instruction in America and the future of the second-class "Universities" with which the country is surfeited. John Burroughs leaves his country scenes to talk of "Faith" and "Credullty." Madame A dam and G. P. A. Healey gossip about subjects with which they are respectively less and more familiar; while Professor Shaler...