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...Robert Codman of Roxbury, will deliver the first of a series of monthly addresses to the St. Paul's Society on Church doctrines, Wednesday evening, at 7 o'clock, in Grays 17. His subject will be, "Holy Baptism...
...first number of the Harvard Lampoon, which comes out today, is devoted largely to the incoming Freshman class. The centre picture by A. K. Moe '97, representing a member of the class of 1900 at his baptism, is cleverly drawn, as is also "Freshy's Debut Before the College Band," by T. M. Hastings...
...United States the civil law does not regulate in any way the entering of the clerical office. It imposes no examinations, and establishes no standard of merit as it does for admission to the bar. Of the three great duties of the clergymen, baptism, marriage, and the burial of the dead, the law only recognizes one, that of marriage, and this has been recognized only for about two hundred years. The first marriage of this kind in New England was performed in 1686. The question as to whether an ordained minister could unite himself in marriage to the woman...
...Winsor, "is now in the see of Rochester, and in the midst of the rebuilding of St. Saviour's Church, the old St. Mary Overy's, the good bishop-not unknown to us in America from his visits there-would interest all Harvardians in the shrine that the probable baptism of John Harvard within its walls has sanctified in their memories. It is certain that the St. Saviour's School, which formerly stood adjacent to the church, had in those early days the father of John Harvard among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone, so that most...
...French Revolution," The speaker said that owing to the frequent changes in government during the past century, the French nation was often accused of fickleness. This was a false charge for these uprisings are due to the most remarkable steadfastness. A nation which has passed through a third baptism of blood, while struggling towards its constant goal in spite of the hostility of a whole continent, shows a heroic firmness. It is a remarkable fact that all the French governments of the past century have proclaimed their acceptance of the principles of the Revolution. The first Napoleon, though at heart...