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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...push on for himself as far as he can into the knowledge of religious truths, there is no reason why he must put off, until he knows all truth, the practice of that which he already knows. he gave a vivid portrayal of the attempts of missionaries to correct the cannibals of the pacific Islands. It is men like these that move the world, and their spirit is what young men need...
...exhibition on Thursday night of last week they suspended the member of the association who kept his hat on for the purpose of creating a disturbance. Whatever the directors may do they cannot stop the hissing and stamping when a man keeps his hat on, and unless the members correct the evil of their own accord there is no remedy except the closing of the gallery to visitors. This action will certainly be taken unless disturbances in the future are stopped...
...planets are of small dimension relative to the great distances, and the sun preponderates. They move independent as it were, the perturbations being almost imperceptible. The ancients had a general idea of the attraction of the heavenly bodies. Their speculations about the orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated...
Finally among the English crews nearly all the men swing a little bit out of the line of the boat. This swing is very little, indeed but still it is quite perceptible. The coaches always try to correct this but do not rigidly insist upon...
...BLACK has requested us to correct an error which unavoidably crept into this week's calendar. His lecture on Monday will not be on Cowper, as announced, but he will substitute the one on Goldsmith, which he was obliged to omit from the course last week...