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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lost Despatch, the Story of Antietam," is a subject that will in itself draw a good audience, and Col. Allan is a speaker well able to present it. We have already spoken emphatically of the value of these lectures to the college, and of the honor that they bring to the Historical Society...
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS. 1. The early History of Infinitesimal Calculus. 2. Discuss Clifford's Philosophy of the Pure Sciences. 3. Should men who bring no Mathematics be accepted for honors in Physics? 4. To what extent do Newton's Laws of Motions involve assumptions that can be tested by experiment, and to what extent are they matters of definition...
...borne along by a familiar service which gives utterance to the primary, daily needs of every man. References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
...older and more universal, the better. Thus each may feel that his prayer is the prayer of all; that it is not a selfish wish or capricious will that he utters, but the cry of all mankind. By using a ritual service of this sort, we may help to bring back this sense of the authority and sublimity of religion. We may be brought to feel that the same impulse prompts men now which has always prompted them. Only by interpreting the deepest and most fundamental human consciousness has religion any sanctity; only by interpreting human history...
...Cornell University athletes will give a winter indoor meeting this month. There is great activity in athletic matters at Cornell, nearly three hundred men being at work in the gymnasium. This year the winter meeting will bring out a number of good men, who will be selected to compete in the inter-collegiate field day sports, which come off at Utica next term...