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...There has been a gradual decay of religious influence in European civilization," said Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, at the nineteenth meeting of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course in religion held in Peabody Hall yesterday...
Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, will deliver the nineteenth lecture of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion at 4 o'clock tomorrow, taking as his subject "Science and Religion". Professor Whitehead, who is well known as a mathematical philosopher and logician, of Cambridge University, will discuss his subject from an analytical point of view...
...useful as a clearing-house of undergraduate and graduate, even faculty, opinion. But principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning and thought. The University cannot dispense with a forum of opinion and discussion...
...that in its literal sense, may take a great many years. Instead, he will follow the advice of Bacon, who said that "Natural abilities are like plants: they need pruning by study," and he will observe that Dr. Johnson advises young men to devote themselves to books from their nineteenth to their twenty-fifth year. The abhorrence of being called a "grind," has prompted many undergraduates to change their views about studies. This word is ever present on the tongues of those who consider the College as a place in which to gain extra-curriculum distinction. Whoever stigmatises his fellow...
Evidences of quaint drollery, subtle humor, and even boisterous merriment in some of the most austere Victorians are aptly shown in this week's Widener room display of original and unpublished manuscripts. A number of rare pieces by famous nineteenth century authors are on exhibition which give an insight into an unexpected facetiousness...