Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...entrance to the Gymnasium will be at the eastern gate on Kirkland street; the exits at the western gate on Kirkland street and Holmes place...
...delegation, for many more men; and the committee wishes to have the hall filled entirely with Harvard men. (The total attendance at the conference will probably be about one thousand men, including large delegations from Princeton, Cornell, Yale, University of Pennsylvania and McGill, and smaller delegations from the other eastern colleges...
...various rites and tenets shows; but still worse is the spiritual hopelessness which overshadows the followers of these religions. Their belief in a future life is gloomy. They consider the soul as without any communion with the beauty of nature. But there is a brighter side to these eastern cults. The long struggle for monotheism is still continuing. In some Hindu sects today one supreme, all-righteous god is conceived, and their rule of life is to be guided by righteousness, love, and justice. Throughout the Orient there is almost a yearning for Christianity, and its essence is being assimilated...
...Gray Herbarium has been temporarily increased by the employment of Mr. F. S. Matthews as artist. The Herbarium has recently received from the Botanical Museum at Copenhagen, by exchange, a valuable collection of 300 specimens, chiefly species of northern Europe and Iceland. Another collection, comprising about 280 plants of eastern Quebec and the Rocky Mountains of British America, has lately been received in continuation of exchanges from the Geological Survey Department of Canada...
...LECTURE. "The Island of Sakhalin (Eastern Siberia) and its Primitive Tribes" (Illustrated by the Stereopticon), Professor C. H. Hawes, Trinity College, Cambridge, England, Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...