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...celebration of the Lord's Supper at Appleton Chapel this morning is an event of epoch-making importance in the history of the University. A review of the development and growth of the religious spirit which has made this service possible is both interesting and instructive...
...representative institutions of the most modern type, is perhaps hardly due to our own efforts. Yet we should not therefore fail to realize our good fortune. The movement may not be successful, but it is an event which can not fail to be considered by future generations as an epoch in the history of China...
Professor Kuehnemann began by expressing his pleasure at being able to see a new epoch open in the history of Harvard, and at carrying away a pleasant impression of President Lowell. He then took up the question of cosmopolitanism and explained that the present conception is not that of the Stoics or of the Epicureans. It is a sentiment that has grown with the idea of nationalism and has absorbed it. A feeling of sympathy for the nations has arisen, and with it a desire to impart to them whatever it possesses of the best. All academic life alike, seeks...
...understood as the expression of the present mental crisis in Germany. His greatest work is "Zarathustra." Upon its appearance he was acclaimed by the noisy multitude as a Messiah, although his mission is that of a John the Baptist. He marks the turning point at an exceedingly low epoch, toward an as yet unknown future. This work is aphoristic in style, and is the result of his spiritual creative faculty...
...announcement of the first new appointments in the Graduate School of Applied Science marks an epoch in the development of the school and in the policy of the University in regard to the scientific and engineering departments. The University is now prepared to make the standard of work in engineering the very highest to be obtained anywhere and to place this graduate school on the same level with the others. It is expected that these appointments will be followed in quick succession by others, and by means of the large endowment soon to be available and the spirit...