Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Service Committee has recently issued a leaflet in regard to the Social Service library stated a year ago. To secure the best possible library on social subjects, the Committee wrote to twenty-eight English and American experts, asking each one to recommend ten books suitable for such a library. About one hundred of the books recommended have been bough, and the collection is being kept up to date. The leaflet which has been prepared by the Committee calls attention to these books, expressing the hope that the library will be freely used by members of the University. As characteristic...
...best plays it has yet produced. The book and lyrics are by P. L. Coonley '03, the author of "Queen Philippine," the play given last year. The plot, which is laid in India, has many ingenious situations for which the peculiar superstitions of that country in regard to the preservation of the idols of Buddha give foundation. The music by A. w. Denison '03, has the spirit, and liveliness that was the chief characteristic of the "Queen Philippine" music, which he also composed. It will be rendered entirely by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...present time, however, the tendency is to regard theism as a conclusion rather than as an axiom. Throughtful men nowadays do not consider revelations as miraculous disclosures direct from God, but rather as the gradual awakening of an inward impelling force for good. This conception is in line with a changed idea of man. Of late years it has come to be believed that the will, the ambition and the emotions should be considered co-ordinate with the reason as guides to man's actions. This idea brings with it the feeling that a conviction due to perfectly worked...
...were becoming a decreasing factor in the game. The provisional agreement with Yale on uniform eligibility rules was taken up and discussed. It is hoped that the Committee at its next meeting on Friday afternoon will be in position to take definite action on the agreement. Certain points in regard to the rules are yet to be settled between the two universities, and if these have been agreed upon by Friday, the Athletic Committee can then definitely consider the agreement for its ratification. If it should be ratified by both the Harvard and Yale committees, the agreement will be made...
...circulars recently issued by the Observatory describe the work being done on the accumulated photographic plates which has been made possible by the grant lately made by the Carnegie Institution and by record observations made by Professor O. C. Wendell in regard to the transparency of comets to stellar bodies. The plates under study have been made both at the Cambridge station and at the Observatory in Peru. From the observations made by Professor Wendell he disproves the statement that comets are perfectly transparent. In addition to data on these two subjects observations are recorded on missing asteroids, whose disappearance...