Word: lectureships
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...President Hadley's insistence on the points of fundamental unity--the intellectual rivalry which shows itself among the graduates in varied walks of life, the influence of the traditions which both uphold--reveals the very matter which the undergraduates are most likely to overlook. The value of the Harvard lectureship which he mentions so enthusiastically makes us wish that some Yale alumnus would present a sum of money to Harvard to allow us to entertain regularly a Yale professor. Certain it is that the bonds of union between the two universities which the spirit of such a gift shows...
When this lectureship was founded there was extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system...
...Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University has notified the heads of the more prominent educational institutions in this country that a lectureship on the history and institutions of the United States has been established at Oxford to be held by American scholars. The subject matter of the lectures may be political, institutional, economic, or relating to the social history or conditions of the United States...
...Advisory Committee includes President Lowell, President Hadley of Yale, President Butler of Columbia, Gov. Woodrow Wilson, and the Right Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States. It is expected that the first appointment to this lectureship will be made shortly, and that the first series of lectures will be delivered this summer...
...McCrackan, C.S.B., will speak on the subject of Christian Science under the auspices of the Christian Science Society in Emerson D. this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. McCrackan is on the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston. The lecture will be open to the public...