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ANDOVER CLUB. - Important meeting Thursday, May 2, at 7.30 p. m., in the rooms of the Delta Upsilon Society, over No. 9 Brattle street. Election of officers for 1895-6. Professor Shaler will speak. Professor Churchill will read selections. Every member of the University who ever attended Phillips Academy is cordially invited to attend...
...Bowdoin Prize dissertations, on the subject "An Historical Sketch of the Theories of Electricity with Especial Reference to Changes in Recent Years," will be read by A. W. K. Billings '95, at 7.45 this evening in Sever 5. The aim of the paper is to discuss, in as non-technical a manner as possible, the reasons for past changes, the present conceptions and the supporting experimental evidence. The reading is open to the public...
After a thorough investigation a report was completed and published in the spring of 1894. No other educational document published in this country has been more widely read or has caused more discussion. The committee found that the defect in the secondary school lay in the course of study rather than in the teaching, and was caused by continuing the study of elementary subjects too long...
Last evening in Sever 5, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors for the Bowdoin Prizes, read his dissertation on "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time." The first part of the dissertation treated in an exhaustive manner of the boyhood and development of the Emperor Julian, his relation toward Christianity and to Paganism, and his contact with Neo-Platonism. The second part deals with the great Pagan reaction of the fourth century, with the immensity of the task to which Julian's religious beliefs had brought him, and with his ultimate failure...
...accordance with the usual custom by which the winners of the Bowdoin Prizes are invited to read their dissertations in public, H. E. Addison '96, one of the successful competitors this year, will read his dissertation this evening at 7.30, in Sever 5. The subject is "The Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan Reaction of his Time...