Word: christ
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ATTENTION is called to a lecture to be given in the chapel of Christ Church, Cambridge, Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7.45, entitled "The United States Government Expedition to Tasmania to observe the Transit of Venus," to be illustrated by views by John Moran, thrown by a powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only...
...Langdon, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, will conduct the services of the St. Paul's Society on Ash-Wednesday evening, March...
...When Harvard was true to her seal, Christo et Ecclesiae, her halls were filled with the brain and brawn of New England. Now that she is, in the words of Henry Martyn, 'crucifying Christ between two thieves, the classics and mathematics,' how has she fallen from her former position...
...fine day last May - as a matter of fact it was the thirty-first - Mr. Brantingham, of Christ Church, having occasion to write a letter, was unfortunate enough to use a sheet of paper on which was stamped a representation of a Cardinal's hat, which is the crest of Christ Church. Some myrmidon of the Inland 'Revenue discovered this circumstance, and a few weeks ago Mr. Brantingham received a windy rigmarole of a legal summons to attend at the Vice-Chancellor's Court, and show cause why he should not forfeit the sum of pound 20 in that...
...Caius College, Cambridge, the high jump, 5 ft. 4 in., was the best thing. The hundred-yard race occupied 11 sec. At Christ's the hundred-yard was run in 10 3/5 sec., and the 150-yard handicap...