Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Boylston Chemical club was held last evening in Boylston 8. The subject for discussion was "Raoult's method for determining molecular weights." Mr. W. L. Jennings opened the discussion...
Asst. Professor Francke delivered, yesterday afternoon, the third of the series of introductory lectures on German literature. His subject was "Luther as a Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet...
...Dudleian lecture was given last night in Appleton Chapel by the Rev. Dr, Gustave Gottheil of New York. The subject (prescribed by the will of the founder) was "The proving, explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principles of natural religion as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned men." Dr. Gottheil chose as the part of this subject on which he wished particularly to speak the school of natural religion in ancient Israel. The fact, said the speaker, that natural religion was a factor of no mean importance in the growth of revealed religion...
...college ready to join her in her stand. The position of some of the graduates, that the time was not opportune for a withdrawal was attacked on the grounds that delay would do no good; a withdrawal would still seem to be a revenge for a defeat and the subject was really so old a one that no one could call a withdrawal at the present time a hasty poorly-considered step...
...Moved, seconded and carried, that the present advisory committee on football be empowered to treat with Yale on the subject of a dual league in football, any action they may take to be subject to the ratification of the college...