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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...justice to the men who spent seven hours counting the votes last Friday night, I wish to explain how the special count was carried on. There were four tabulation sheets. As each ballot was read off, the teller in charge of the Bryan-Hughes list, for instance, would note down whether the voter preferred Bryan or Hughes, on the assumption that, if there had been only those two candidates, the voters who preferred Bryan would have voted for him and those who preferred Hughes would have voted for him. Similarly for the four other possible combinations of nominees. The results...
...object of the club is to educate its members and. in a broader sense. the whole University, in the discussion of the radical social thought of the day. Speakers of national note will probably be secured, who represent the most advanced sociological and economic thought. with especial attention to the various phases of socialism. The club is a political organization only in so far as its objects may be advanced by these meetings. The next meeting will be held some time next week when officers will be elected...
...graduate of the Yale Divinity School and for two years student at the University of Leipzig, the religious side of sociology has especially appealed to him, and the present course is an attempt to set forth the fundamental phases and development of a democratic religion of today. The key-note was struck in the first lecture last Monday when Professor Zueblin maintained that the great essential of a man's religion is its well-marked individuality, setting forth the chief agencies that are instrumental in moulding a child's conception of religion...
...current number of the Advocate is in many was a worthy and even remarkable product of the undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre...
...surrounded Phillips Brooks, so that no man felt that he could call him an intimate friend, and yet, in his sermons, he gave his whole being to his hearers. No other man's sermons were ever wrought with such thought and care. They all went through three stages, the note-book, the compendium stage, and then the finished arrangement, so that his intellectual preparation and logic made a track, as it were, for the rush of his rhetoric. Complete as was his plan and outline, he spoke with such spontaneity that he seemed to be swept on by some supernatural...