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...field of university study was unquestionably a pioneer service. It was his belief as a Christian minister that Christianity, rightly understood and applied, would furnish the best guide for the solution of the many critical problems of family life and social welfare which the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had brought to the front. While the present trends of constructive work in the direction of social amelioration may be less visibly and consciously inspired by religious and ethical considerations and more by the effect to reconcile competitive forces on a materialistic and economic basis, the fact remains that...
...portrays the struggle between the two families with its tragic outcome, and uses different tonalities to express the various episodes in the story. Also on the various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor by the late nineteenth century American composer, Edward MacDowell, Mr. Howard Goding is to be the soloist. MacDowell, a pupil of Joachim Raff, wrote this work while staying at Wiesbaden in the summer of 1885, and although most of his compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course...
...faint glimmering on the edge of infant horizons, it is hard to tell the difference between Armistice Day and any other holiday that breaks up class-room routine. The parades, the athletic events, and the glorification of the stars and stripes are as typical of Navy Day or the nineteenth of April as the holiday just past. But unlike the jingoistic sensations that Patriots' Day arouses, the first Armistice Day marked not just the celebration of victory but also the coming of a new spirit of idealism for a war-weary world...
...entertaining story of the vicissitudes of the French language as a branch of study at Harvard, from the first clandestine interest in the language spoken by Papists and arch-enemies in the early eighteenth century, down through the organization and growth of the Romance Languages department in the nineteenth century...
Invented over 50 years ago by undergraduate Frederick W. Thayer '78, the original baseball catcher's mask is now among a group of nineteenth century relics on exhibit in Widener Library...