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...introduction to the study of Federal government, by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, has just appeared. The work is in two parts, the first a short history and the second an appendix which is equal to the preceding part in length and value. The first chapter treats of the fundamental conceptions of the state and sovereignty, of nonfederal relations between states, and of the nature classification and political conditions of federal governments. Then follow short sketches of the ancient and mediaeval confederations and more detailed accounts of the four principal federations of today, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Canada...
...sermon at the vesper service yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel was delivered by Rev. T. C. Williams upon verses from the fourth: chapter of the book of Proverbs. The reason why resolutions for the new year are so easily broken is because they are so trivial; since it is far harder to do a small, comparatively unimportant thing than a great one. A man should try to change himself morally and begin a thoroughly new and good life. A single bough may be hard to cut off; the axe should be laid at the root of the tree. Each...
Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel, W. E. Huntington, D. D., of Boston University, preached an able sermon on Christian Life. His text was taken from Ephesians, 4th chapter, 13th verse. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ...
Members of Fine Arts 3 are expected to read the first chapter both of Oman's and Curtins'History of Greece very soon...
...Lyon spoke at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association last evening on a text from the fifteenth verse of the twelfth chapter of Luke. When the regular meeting was over, the president of the association called a business meeting. D. C. Torrey '90 proposed that the society reprint five thousand copies of the article enticed "Harvard's Better Self," by W. R. Bigelow, which appeared recently in the New England Magazine. The motion was passed. It will cost $125 to print and send out five thousand copies...