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...cannot be overestimated. It gives a spiritual uplift which can come in no other way. If Harvard should send a large delegation to the meeting, which extends this year from June 29 to July 10, the men would bring back a practical enthusiasm which would give the whole religious life of the university a decided impetus. Those who are interested in broadening and extending the religious life here would do well to give this matter serious consideration...
...This local commemoration of one great event in the life of Washington and of the United States is well, but it is nothing compared with the incessant memorial of him which the schools and colleges of the country maintain from generation to generation...
...What a reward is Washington's! What an influence is his and will be! One mind and will transfused by sympathetic instruction into milions; one character a standard for millions; one life a pattern for all public men teaching what greatness is and what the pathway to undying fame...
...Temperance Legislation; Uses and Limits" by C. W. Clark and the "Lawyer in National Politics" by Frank G. Cook. Mr. John Fiske contributes another paper on the battles of the revolution, the subject of which is "Brandywine, Germantown and Saratoga." A very interesting article is "Reflections after a Wandering Life in Austrarlsia,' by Professor John Royce. Professor Royce spent several months last year in a voyage to Australasia, and his acute powers of observation were well exercised. The other articles in the number are "A Paris Exposition in Dishabille" by W. F. Bishop, "La Merveilleuse Americaine" by A. R. Haven...
Early in the life of Jesus when he would go into Judea to Lazarus, in spite of the dangers Thomas exclaims impulsively, "Let us also go, that we may die with him." His character was an impulsive, mercurial, skeptical one, but when appealed to by a demand for a great service it responded at once. And so now we bemoan the cynicism, indifference and selfishness of the youth of our day, and yet that youth is ready for service, and when appealed to throws aside its indifference...