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...Moslem civilization, and particularly of Mohammed and the Koran. He will also take up the history of Mohammedan religious ideas, Arabic literature and the present condition of Arabian affairs. The lectures are the result of the thorough study which Professor Toy has made of the subject during his recent sojourn in Europe. They will be illustrated with the stereopticon which, as many of the pictures which will be shown are entirely new, will make the lectures doubly interesting. They will be given on the evenings of the four Tuesdays in November. No change will be made and as the public...
When our attention was called to this attack in the Wesleyan Argus, we treated it with the contempt it deserved by passing it by unnoticed, remembering the source from which it came. In a recent number of the Princetoniun, however, the editors have seen fit to publish the extracts from the editorials in question. If, as it seems, those statements of the Argus are to go the rounds of the college press, we have, in justice to the Harvard team, to notice them far enough to deny them. What movive actuated the editors of the Princetonian to reprint the statements...
...meeting was opened by Boyden L. S., who was cheered loudly. He stated that the object of the meeting was to show the error of the impression which the recent Independent meeting had caused with regard to the political condition of Harvard. He in troduced Dr. E. E. Hale as one who was near to every Harvard heart, who opened with a stirring speech in which he described the patriot men whom Harvard had educated and the patriot ideas which they have always entertained...
...Robinson was the next speaker. In opening, he welcomed the Republican Club of Harvard and stated that as this is a govenment of the majority, those who had spoken at the recent meeting ought to seek other platforms and endeavor to correct the false impression which they had carried abroad. In Harvard he had learned that protection was the one sound basis of government in this Common-wealth. Harvard had always been for the masses and when the old college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which...
...following article is taken from the New York Mail and Express. The recent resignation of a body of the students' conference committee at Princeton and the vacillation and weakness of the college senate at Amherst must indicate to the authorities the difficulties and embarassments which attend the policy of allowing the undergraduate to participate in his own government. The tendency for the last five years has been toward some form of co-operation in college government and discipline between faculty and student. The system was several years ago adopted at Amherst, and in Williams, Princeton, Harvard, Vermont and some other...