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...preacher to the University will conduct the evening service in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. Seats on the floor will be reserved for members of the University and friends accompanying them until 7.25 o'clock; the seats in the gallery will be open to the public...
...Royal Institute of Public Health--William Robert Smith, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., LL.D., Principal...
...published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different classes of society, especially those between monks and minstrels. They are based on the author's own investigations, and are not popular lectures for the general public. They will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College and others interested in the subject. The times and the place will be announced later...
...physical and moral value of athletic sports, and of intercollegiate contests conducted in a spirit of generous rivalry; and I do not believe that their exaggerated prominence at the present day is to be attributed to a conviction on the part of the undergraduates, or of the public, that physical is more valuable than mental force. It is due rather to the fact that such contests offer to students the one common interest, the only striking occasion for a display of college solidarity...
...growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively small estimation in which high proficiency in college studies is held both by undergraduates and by the public at large; for if college education were closely adapted to the needs of the community, excellence of achievement therein ought to be generally recognized as of great value. The transitional nature of existing conditions is seen again in the absence, among instructors as well as students, of fixed principles by which...