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...annual CRIMSON dinner was held Saturday night at Young's Hotel. Twenty-eight men in all were present - by far the largest number that have ever met at an annual dinner of the board. The dinner was the pleasantest that the board has ever held, the feeling of unity between past and present editors, and the enthusiastic loyalty of all to the interests of the CRIMSON, being more marked than ever before...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton delivered the first of his lectures on Dante, last evening in Sanders Theatre before the largest audience that has greeted a lecturer here for several years. The lecture was an introduction to the discussion of the life and works of Dante. The functions of poetry, the beginnings of Italian Poetry, and the thirteenth century in Italy, were the subjects treated by Professor Norton. In brief the lecture was as follows...
Christianity according to Christ furnishes the basis for the largest and richest culture of which men are capable - the largest and richest culture of mind, body and soul. The old religion taught that Christ's doctrine was the doctrine of the mortification of the body for the glory of God. But we know now that Christ paid great attention to the physical welfare of men. He went about healing all manner of disease among the people, and ended the parable of the Good Samaritan by commanding his disciples to go and do each for his neighbor in distress what...
...largest club of this kind is the Andover Club, which has a membership of eighty-six. The club gives annual prizes for proficiency in English which are competed for by the members of the two upper classes at Phillips Andover Academy. The club holds three or more meetings a year at each of which some prominent alumnus addresses the club...
...contest; he will be assisted in the Yale contest by the man who gives the second best oration. In the Yale contest the men will be judged on thought, style and delivery. The marks of the speakers on each side will be added together and the side having the largest score will win the contest...