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Question: "Resolved, That the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has promoted the best interests of its members and of the community...
These blossoms yet are pulsing warm With brotherhood...
...first study of medicine was at the famous school of Salemo, near Naples. During the early centuries of Christianity the practice of medicine was almost entirely in the hands of monks. They devoted themselves to its study, handed downs its secrets to the members of their brotherhood, and continued the good work begun by the priests of AEsculapius, who were said to closely resemble monks in their convictions of the religiousness of a life devoted to the relief of suffering, Gradually in the course of a few decades, the instruction of these monks developed into a full university course...
...when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that it should be a brotherhood of all those who failed to attain distinction in their studies. It was a senior society, and only those members of the class were admitted to membership "who failed to receive parts at the senior exhibition." The election of the "Lord High Admiral" of the navy occurred before the announcement...
...series of religious meetings open to the public is to be held in King's Chapel, beginning Feb. 6. They will be conducted by some of the later graduates of the Harvard Divinity School, who are banded together under the name of "The Cambridge Brotherhood." Mr. J. B. Sharland is now drilling a choir to lead in the congregational singing. The addresses will be direct appeals in the interests of a better, a purer life, and will be absolutely free from doctrinal teachings. - Cambridge Chronicle...