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...Samuel B. Capen of Boston will speak at the invitation of the Christian Association on "What comes first?" This is the first of a series of weekly talks planned to assist men in constructing their ideas in regard to personal Christianity. A member of one of Boston's oldest business firms, at one time chairman of the school-board, and at another, president of the famous Municipal Reform League, Mr. Capen is well qualified to present the practical side of Christian living...
...Harvard Club of Philadelphia, founded in 1864 is the oldest Harvard Club in the country...
...meeting of secretaries of graduate classes held last night at the Parker House, twenty-eight men were present; the oldest class represented was 1840. A permanent organization was effected, according to the plan proposed last December, with the following officers forming an executive committee: Chairman, J. T. Wheelwright '76; secretary, A. J. Garcean '91; third member of the committee, Henry M. Williams...
...which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous to the name-giving and selecting intervention of the East, the long...
...Joseph Warren Cross '28 is now Harvard's oldest living graduate. Mr. Samuel W. Chandler '22, who held that honor for more than four years, died recently in Philadelphia...