Word: life
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Beginning with the evening of February 13 and during the following month five lectures will be given under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. The general subject of the lectures will be the "Intellectual Life of Germany." The lectures will be given on successive Wednesday evenings; the first four in Sever 11-the last will be given in Upper Boylston and will be illustrated by the stereopticon. The following gentlemen will speak...
...have just been vividly described by Professor Cohn. The movement among the societies of the same type as the Verein to invite prominent men to speak at Harvard has secured some of the most interesting lectures of this term. The societies show in this action an encouraging sign of life and energy and an effort to bestow a genuine benefit upon the whole college outside of the social advantages they offer to their own members...
...days at Washington, D. C. After the usual business had been transacted. Professor G. B. Goode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, read a paper on the "Uses and Limitations of Historical Museums." The meeting was by far the most successful one the association has had during its short life of four years. A very large number of members was present, although, to be sure, New England was very poorly represented, probably owing to Christmas and New Year's festivals. A few days before the meeting the bill incorporating the American Historical Association passed both houses of Congress. The corporators...
...congratulate the Conference Francaise on the vigor and life it is showing in getting ready for the stage a short comedy by Jules Moineau. In doing this it is following the excellent and successful precedent of last year, when this formerly almost dormant society blossomed forth into one of the most active of literary societies at Harvard. The successful performance of last year gave a great boom to the society, and its immediate result was a large increase in the number of members, all taking a great interest in the welfare and progress of the society. We trust that this...
...Furber, L. S., followed for the negative. Our government rules in two forms-by national sovereignty and by state sovereignty-which means that the government cannot undertake to assume as national questions all the affairs of life, but that the states must do their share in examining them. Again there is a practical difficulty which confronts us when we try to add the divorce law to our national constitution: this, that a three-fourths vote of the states is required to pass an amendment, and, since there are so many laws, it would be hard to obtain a satisfactory vote...