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Bishop Brent's address at the University meeting last night was a consideration of the Philippine question from the point of view of an American Christian. The speaker, who has been consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippine Islands, has never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these...
...Next he spoke of the duty of the American Church in the Islands. The natives are a people with Oriental ideas, who cannot be expected to accept at once our Christianity with its distinctly western spirit. The Christian missionaries must be able to get hold of the spirit of the people. The next duty of the Church in the Philippines is to the American population. There are, exclusive of the Army and Navy, about seven or eight thousand Americans in Manila alone, and from them the natives get their ideas of our country. No official promises or reports can have...
...Harvard team D. A. McCabe spoke first, E. W. Baker second, and J. N. Johnson third, and in the rebuttal Johnson changed places with Baker. The members of the team including the alternate, W. Badt, will receive Sur-bridge debating cups. The team was was coached by H. LeB. Sampson...
...Robert E. Speer spoke in Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening on the value of Jesus Christ. There are two great things, he said, which Christ can do for us. In the first place He can show us what is right. Many believe that their consciences will tell them what is right. But conscience is a defective standard, for it allows men to differ most widely. A man's decisions on the rectitude of his actions must be made according to his moral judgment, and that judgment can be profoundly affected by Jesus Christ. It can be powerfully moulded for good...
...held in Cambridge on December 26, 27 and 28, was opened on the afternoon of the 26 by President Eliot's address of welcome. Among the six papers that followed was that of Dr. J. A. Walz entitled, "Three Swabian Journalists and the American Revolution." Professor G. H. Grandgent spoke on "Cato and Elijah." At an extra session in the evening, Professor E. S. Sheldon, president of the association, delivered the presidential address on the subject, "Practical Philology." On Friday Dr. W. H. Schofield and Mr. P. C. Hoyt read papers treating of the home of King Harn...