Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...central thought of the pageant is derived from the custom of tree worship practiced by the ancients. Starting with the crude and superstitious worship of the early Norsemen, the practice is followed down through the ecclesiastical history of the various tribes and peoples that inhabited Europe before the time of Christ, and finally ends with the springing into life of our own Christmas tree. The program will be divided into two parts. In the first, groups of people representing the different nationalities of the ancient world will appear, each group carrying its national tree of life. Dancing and acting representing...
...character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand we seldom trust. The people among whom he is placed in the play are good people...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Antagonistic Therapy and its Relation to Oral Infections." Dr. L. M. S. Miner. "Demonstration of Four Tumors of the Central Nervous System." Dr. A. W. Hunter. "A Demonstration, of Gross and Microscopic Specimens." Dr. W. F. Whitney. Lecture Room, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P. M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...
...spoke on "The Significance of the Day." After outlining briefly the main events in German history since the Middle Ages, Professor Meyer said that the founding of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701 marked the first step toward German national unity. Since that date the strength of the central government has increased until now the power of Germany is such as to guarantee universal peace to Europe. In contrasting the present centralized power with the former disorganization, the speaker pointed out that, whereas in the Middle Ages other nations used Germany as a common battlefield, there has been no great...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 was the next speaker. Under the head of "Bismarck as a Commonwealth Builder," he spoke of the latter's main purpose, that of converting the many German states into one central unified whole. Three reasons may be given for the ultimate success of this greatest of nineteenth century diplomats in this stupendous undertaking: first, the class to which Bismarck belonged was such that if once convinced of the usefulness of a project, it would pursue it to the end; second, Bismarck himself had a glorious vision of what could be accomplished; third, Bismarck's remarkable...