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Harvard Religious Union. Subject: On Taking One's Self too Seriously. Mr. A. D. Sheffield. Parlors of the First Parish Church...
...petition has been drawn up in the Sheffield Scientific School and presented to the faculty, requesting that the course be lengthened to four years. This was signed by a large majority of the two upper classes, but owing to the many difficulties in the way of a change it seems probable that for the present, at least, the faculty will no action in the matter...
...pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being, and the second, a "Verse," by Percy Adams...
...carefully written and thoughtfully studied essay on Wordsworth's Ode on Immortality is contributed by Alfred D. Sheffield. It shows Wordsworth's keen appreciation of the significance of the connection between nature and child life. In contemplating childhood, says the writer, Wordsworth drew "an assurance that man's high instincts are then undimmed, that the mist between him and God is then 'a pure transparency...
...upper classes of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale have got up a petition for a four years' course. It has with few exceptions met with decided approval. The freshman class has not yet been canvassed. Later the petition will be placed under the management of a committee elected by the senior class, which committee will send to all the graduates envelopes enclosing resolutions and slips for a positive or negative vote. The vote of the graduates will be sent in with the petition, but it will not be submitted to the consideration of the faculty until the corporation meeting...