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...systematic course of lectures on the Bible and Bible study. These lectures will be given about once a week and will be by officers of instruction and preachers to the University. Among the topics to be treated are: The literary aspect of the English Bible; its relation to modern problems; its connection with the sacred books of the East; the light thrown upon the Old Testament by a knowledge of the New Testament times; the spirit of the Psalms; the Sermon on the Mount; the teachings of Christ; the speeches of Paul. The lecturers will include Professors Toy, Everett...
...Winkler, '89, who has been tutoring in Cambridge this summer, has received an appointment as instructor of modern languages at Michigan University...
...John Richard Jewett, late instructor in Semitic at Harvard, has been appointed instruct or in the modern and Semitic languages at Brown University...
...Prof. Cohn writes admiringly of one Frenchman, and R. W. Herrick unadmiringly of all Frenchmen. M. Cohn's paper is a brief resume of Emile Augier's literary character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof...
...Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John Harvard and the buildings is great and perhaps irreparable. There have been some mischievous attacks on the statue before this, and some ungentlemanly incidents in previous celebrations, but but no student raid of modern times has been so outrageous as this...