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Weeklies. - Nation, Harper's, Leslie's, Punch, London Times and Graphic, Living Age, Scientific American, Forest and Stream, Woman's Journal, Independent, Congregationalist, Universalist, Watchman, Zion's Herald, Messiah's Herald, Missionary Magazine and Herald. Sunday editions of Boston Herald, New York Herald and World, Chicago Times...
...read at the Harvard Club dinner in New York. In an explanatory note, Dr. Holmes tells us that the original seal of the College was "a shield, with three open books, bearing the word Veritas." This motto was afterwards changed, probably during the presidency of Increase Mather, a strong Congregationalist, to "Christo et Ecclesiae." The object of the sonnets is best shown by their author's own remarks...
There are three religious organizations among us, which hold precisely the position of churches in the outside world. There is, first, the Christian Brethren. This society was organized in 1802. It corresponds to a Baptist or Congregationalist church. It was founded to keep alive the fund-mental ideas of Evangelical Christianity, just as one of those churches. It requires assent to the common Evangelical doctrines for admission to regular membership, but invites all students to its meetings. These are characterized by the same spirit that may be felt in any Evangelical prayer-meeting, and have been very recently commended...