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Yesterday, Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76, LL,D., Langdell Professor of Law, celebrated his birthday for the first time in four years and for the sixteenth time in life of 68 years...
...boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed by no experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works of the Phlogistonists of the sixteenth century, but based even more upon unproven postulates. Mr. Page's utter disregard for the scientific distinction between hypothesis, theory, and law, and his garbled manner of exposition detract from the philosophical as well as from the scientific value of his work...
...Rousmaniere expressed the opinion that the present fundamental movement is a reactionary result of the liberal thought fostered by the war. As for the heralded "rift in the Episcopal Church" he was positive that no such thing would occur." Ever since the sixteenth century, there have been two parties, liberal and conservative, in the church. It is the old difference of high church and low church...
This kind of comedy had been in vogue for about two centuries, and was still popular when Goldoni resolved to attempt to displace it with comedy of a literary type. Examples of the latter had, indeed, existed from the early sixteenth century onward, but had never come into favor with the professional actors or their audiences. Realizing the difficulty of his task, Goldoni, in his earlier comedies, did not deal too drastically with the old favorite stock-characters, and only gradually deprived them of the monopoly of the stage, by relegating them mostly to minor parts. He abolished, however...
...occidental world is particular the United States is usually surprised when it learns that the Filipinos are Christians and have been for a early four centuries. The Filipines were Christianized by the Spanish monks in the sixteenth century and the thoroughness of the work of these Spanish ecclesiastics is testified to by the fact that today 95 percent of the entire populace are devout Catholics. We are the only nation in Asia which professor Christianity as its chief religion...