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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to the cutting after vacation, a system of registration after vacation similar to that in use here, has been adopted at Princeton...
Influence, though in a way opposed to power in character, often works along similar lines; but its method of work is very different. Influence works quietly, unassumingly and in unexpected places. It is more nearly related to the quality of love than power. Of the two, however, it is the stronger. The church has really very limited power but its influence is tremendous. It does not need power, for its work is done in a very quiet way in the homes of the people...
Cornell College has sent a petition to congress requesting that a Road Department be established in Washington, similar to the Agricultural Department, the purpose being to promote knowledge in the art of constructing roads. The petition further asks that the department make provisions for the teaching of students in road engineering, and also that Congress appropriate sufficient funds to erect a building for a comprehensive road exhibit at the World's Fair...
...Professor Fay addressed the Christian Association on the "History of the Psalms." It is remarkable that a book written by an alien people several thousand years ago should be adopted by the churches today as the fullest expression of their religious life. The book of Psalms stands forth among similar books of the world, as a national hymn book which contains to a great extent the record of the life of the people...
...carefully examined the Moak collection since it was sold and knowing thoroughly the Harvard Law Library, I have no hesitation in saying that the statement that "Cornell now has the finest law library in the country" is very far from correct. Since the disposal of the Moak Collection a similar statement has been published in many papers and the following is quoted from the Boston Daily Advertiser of October 18: "This addition will make the Cornell Law Library, 23,000 volumes, the largest law school collection in this country." The Harvard Law Library at present numbers upwards...