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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Mr. Arthur Woods '92 delivered a very interesting lecture on "Police and Detective Forces in New York City" before a large gathering in the Living Room of the Union last evening. He explained the conditions of the detectives in New York and showed how difficult it was for them to be upright and efficient...
...Mr. Woods first described two phases of police activity that are little known by the general public. The policeman, when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...
...second Bible Study Conference of the year will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Mr. K. S. Latourette, Bible study secretary at Yale, University, will speak on the influences of the Bible study movement at Yale and the means of increasing its work in the University. Dean Fenn and Rev. J. G. K. McClure, president of the McCormick Theological School, will also make brief speeches. Since the first conference held on October 8, the work of enrolling men in Bible study classes has been continued, until at present there are about...
...excavations carried out by the Harvard expedition to Samaria were made possible by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff who, in 1905 offered to provide the money for excavating the mound which buries Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Professor Lyon, who left last spring on leave of absence to supervise the excavations, returned recently and reports gratifying results. The work was carried on at two sites intermittently from the middle of April until August 21. The first site is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of columns, belonging, supposedly, to a temple erected...
...been tried out. If favorable weather presents itself, the boat will be given a trial this week upon the river. Except for a few minor differences, this boat is built on the same plan as last season's shell, which was also the gift of Mr. Baylies, and built by Sims. After the trial, it will probably be rigged over upon the same lines as the present shell, which was used in the victorious race with Yale last June. The main difference in the appearance of the English shell from those built in this country is in the arrangement...