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Docents may be provided with individual rooms, and special apparatus may be purchased for their research if desired and approved. They may also be equipped and sent on scientific ex-peditions. They are expected during the year, to deliver a limited number of lectures on some special chapter of their departments but their time will be reserved for study and research a way best adapted to qualify them still more fully for academic advancement...
...Brooke Herford, of Boston, conducted the services at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took for his text the 27th verse of the first chapter of St. Mark's gospel: "What new doctrine is this?" It has been thought by a great many people that the doctrines of Christianity are new, but much that is noble is to be found in other religions. It is not a name, but a principle, that inspires people in religion. In certain respects Christianity may be considered a new doctrine, but in its fundamental principles, in its thought and feelings...
...some sixty members present. Among the officers elected at the business meeting for the ensuing year were R. S. Beckford, Harvard, '85, secretary treasurer, and C. A. Bunker, '89, member of the executive committee. The society is in a very flourishing condition. Ten members were initiated into the Harvard chapter last Tuesday, and the meeting of the fraternity for 1891 will be held here...
...regular weekly vesper service was held in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. Rev. F. G. Peabody led in the devotional part of the service, after which the choir sang Brown's anthem, "Thy sun shall no more go down." Rev. William Lawrence read the portion of the sixth chapter of John describing the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, and made it the text of his remarks. He said that in this passage we have in miniature the relation of Christ, the church and the world. In the replies of the two disciples to Christ's question...
Preliminary Definitions-North American Review, vol. 118. p. 1a, Von Holst, Constitutional Law, 32; Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution, chapter 3; Bagchot's English Cons. "Changes of Ministry...