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...debate will be held in the Fogg Art Museum and will begin at eight o'clock. Professor Baker is to preside and the judges are to be Professor J. Wesley Churchill, of Andover, President Capen of Tufts, and Mr. Henry Clapp, of Boston...
...following nominations have been made for the election of officers, to be held next Thursday evening: For president, E. W. Capen '97 and D. Fales, Jr., '97; first vice-president, D. Fales, Jr.; second vice-president, J. E. Gregg '97, R. M. Alden Gr.; third vice-president, G. D. Marvin '99, H. K. Stanley '97; recording secretary, G. Gleason '97, W. H. Porter '98; treasurer, E. B. Barton '98; corresponding secretary, H. K. Stanley '97, W. W. Comfort Gr.; librarian, E. W. Cutting '98; treasurer of secretaries' fund, W. H. Porter...
...judges for the Harvard-Yale Freshman Debate, which will take place in the Fogg Art Museum on May 15, have been chosen and are Professor J. W. Churchill of Andoyer, President Elmer H. Capen, D. D., of Tufts, and Mr. H. A. Clapp of Boston. Professor Baker will preside...
After the opening prayer and hymn, papers on the following subjects were read: Mohammed, by E. W. Capen '97; Confucius, by H. C. Stanley '97; The Religion of the Hindoos, by H. G. Dorman '96; and Buddha, by W. E. Blodgett '96. J. E. Hubbard '98, the presiding officer, in speaking of the relation of these religions to Christianity, said that although we can learn much from the beautiful lives which the founders of them led, nevertheless the excellence of Christianity becomes manifest by comparison...
...Lowering A. B. degree to fit three years requirement is injurious.- (a) To good scholarship.- (1) Invites sacrifice of thoroughness to mere passing of courses: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (b) To smaller colleges: Pres't Capen in report of Tufts College, 1889-90.- (1) They educate more than half of those receiving collegiate education.- (2) Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause...