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PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston...
...former rule that a candidate must have completed at least two years in a college or university was made by the trustees of the Rhodes will, but they have given the state committees the option of changing it, as has been done in this case by the Massachusetts committee. The reason given for the change is that in the opinion of the committee for this state the rule which it has adopted is more in accordance with the spirit of Cecil Rhodes' will. This decision does not, of course, affect any state except Massachusetts...
...desirability of college-trained teachers in high and grammar schools, A. O. Norton '98, instructor in education in the University, will speak on "The Outlook for College Graduates as Teachers." Mr. M. P. White, supervisor of public schools in Boston, and Dr. J. T. Prince, agent of the state board of education, will also speak...
Under the joint auspices of the Christian Association, the Religious Union and the St. Paul's Society, Hon. John W. Foster, of Washington, ex-Secretary of State, delivered an address last night in Sanders Theatre on "What Shall America Do in the Orient?" R. H. Oveson '05 presided, and introduced the speaker of the evening and R. H. Bollard '05, who preceded...
...sometimes ask, without any note of criticism or scepticism, whether nations so uncivilized are in a state to accept Christianity. Were it not better, perhaps, to withdraw American missionaries from China, where their presence has been so unwelcome? It is only those lacking in knowledge who do not perceive the answers to both these questions. To begin with, Christianity has nowhere entered peacefully; and missionaries were not the cause of the late troubles in China, for though they did, it is true, combat the key-note of Chinese peculiarities, it was the commercial greed of alien powers and the political...