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Professor and Mrs. Ostwald and the Misses Ostwald will receive their friends in Phillips Brooks House on Sunday, January 21, from 4.30 to 6.30 o'clock. No special invitations will be issued, and all their friends are hereby invited...
...Esperanto Club, and these have been divided into groups of six which hold informal meetings once every two weeks to study the language. Great interest has been shown, and many of the professors are interested in the movement. Competition has begun for the prizes offered by Professor Ostwald for the best speech and composition in Esperanto, and to aid in this competition and in the general work of the club Esperanto grammers have been placed on sale at the Co-operative. The next meeting of the club will probably be held shortly after the mid-year examinations...
...third meeting of the Esperanto Club, held yesterday afternoon, the announcement was made of a gift of $100 from Professor F.W. Ostwald for the general purposes of the Club. Dr. Ostwald has in addition offered two prizes, one for the best speech, the other for the best composition in Esperanto...
Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of Leipzig delivered the annual Ingersoll lecture last evening on the subject, "Individuality and Immortality," before an audience which completely filled the New Lecture Hall...
Professor Ostwald opened his lecture by citing the results of scientific investigations, intended to show the inadequacy of man's scientific knowledge. We have the atomic theory that all matter is composed of infinitely minute parts, which keep their individuality unchanged under all circumstances. But scientists have recently shown that radium, an element, appears to change to helium, an entirely different element. This shows that the atomic theory is a mere hypothesis, and that the changeless atoms may be proved actually subject to change, if indeed they exist at all. Scientific predictions, then, may be said to be valuable only...