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...Harvard Club of Philadelphia will hold a reception to the undergraduates at Cambridge from Philadelphia on January first, 1910, at 9 P. M., at the Racquet Club, Sixteenth street, below Walnut street, Philadelphia...
...total amount realized from subscriptions during the past year was $7,900--only one-sixteenth of the total athletic income--while the sale of H. A. A. tickets alone brought in more than $10,000. The deficiency resulting from the complete abolition of collections could be made up in more ways than one. The most feasible would probably be raising the price of H. A. A. tickets. As the demand for them is pretty constant, and advance of from $3 to $5 would probably not result in a greatly decreased sale. Even this problematical decrease could be met by having...
...since the sixteenth century has there been such an admirable chance to study Catholicism as illustrated in the Roman Catholic Church. The Modernists of that church are allied in many ways to Protestant liberalists. The fa- mous papal bull of 1907 defined Modernism with adequate correctness. The Modernists lay emphasis on biblical criticism, relativity of dogma, immanence of God, and the social element in religion. The absolute authority of the pope is questioned. They consider that the authority of the bishops rests on the people and not on their succession to the Apostles. The conception of the Catholic Church...
...since early times engineering has been in use to supply men with water, food, and habitation. The Egyptians and Babylonians constructed great works, but in many instances wasted their efforts. During the Middle Ages with the decadence of civilization, engineering declined, only to take on new life in the sixteenth century. The need of the civil engineer became greater with construction of roads, bridges, docks, and harbors. The many inventions of the early nineteenth century gave added impulse to the profession, and engineers began to be differentiated. There arose the railroad engineer; the mechanical engineer, who was concerned with...
...birthday,--born at Hamburg, February 3, 1809. Mendelssohn: Overture, "Fingal's Cave"; Scherzo from the music to Shakspere's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Symphony No. 3, in A minor "Scotch." Part II. Scheinpflug, Overture to a Comedy of Shakspere (with use of an old English melody of the sixteenth century), for full orchestra, op. 15; Wagner, Prelude and "Love Death" from "Tristan and Isolde...