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...rector. Pending the raising of money to build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known." Last Sunday, in the Nineteenth Century Club, he preached on "The Twentieth Century Church...
...Burgos in north-central Spain. The hall was about thirty-four feet square by twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent...
Buck contrasted the attitude of Booker T. Washington, great Negro leader of the nineteenth century with that of William Edward Du Bois '90. "Washington urged the Negroes to acquiesce to their place on the social and economic scale and to become good mechanics and farmers...
...isolation. Justly revolted by the power politics and recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively adroit political manipulation in the Senate--this wishful thinking continued and increased. Until very recently America has been deeply, blindly isolationist...
Described as "a new experiment in inter-field study and discussion," an undergraduate symposium on the repercussions of the Darwinian theory will be presented tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Seven Lowell House students will take the parts of typical and outstanding characters of the nineteenth century presenting the reactions of biologists, economists, theologians, historians, and philosophers, to the Darwinian hypotheses...