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Every Harvard man will read with the greatest satisfaction what Rev. F. B. Vrooman has to say concerning the religious life here at Harvard. We feel that he understands the real position of religion in the life here. We do not claim for the University any extraordinary development in spirituality. But, as Mr. Vrooman says, "there is here unusual vigor of religious life;" the religion of the college is, unquestionably, thoroughly healthy and reverential, and of great depth. The scoffer is an unknown quantity, for unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed...
Brown University will suffer a serious loss in the resignation of its president, Dr. E. G. Robinson, who will withdraw from the presidency of the University at the end of the present college year. Dr. Robinson is now 74 old and during his whole life has been very active. He is still remarkably powerful, physically and mentally, but feels that the fullest development of the college requires the services of a younger...
...processes in this experience are typical and contain lessons for us. The question of Christ, "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" comes to the man unexpectedly, and so it does to all of us. But we are all conscious of the incompleteness, the fragmentary character of our life, and there is an underlying conviction that there is something which will unify the fragments and make our lives complete. With this question comes a dawning consciousness that it is faith in Christ which will accomplish this. In his answer the man displays that receptive spirit which is essential...
...President J. C. Welling of Columbian University contributes an elaborate discussion of the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" in answer to a recent article on the same subject by General Wilcox. The other essays in the number are "Du Pont De Nemours" by J. G Rosengarten; "German Family and Social Life," by General A. E. Lee; "Thrilling Adventures of a Kentucky Pioneer" by Annie L. Wilson, and a short biography of Colonel H. B. Livingston by M. L. Delafield. The number ends with several pages of original documents, notes, queries, replies, jottings and notices...
INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF GERMANY.The remaining lectures in the Deutscher Verein course are as follows...