Word: talking
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Professor James gave a talk upon the Relation of the facts of Spiritualism to Religion before the Foxcroft Club last evening. He referred to the mass of material which the Society for Psychical Research have laboriously collected and sifted and stated that in his opinion these facts must no longer be neglected by the scientific man. The popular mind demands facts and objects to which it may pin its belief; miracles no longer furnish such realities. In the religion which 50 years or so hence will be grasped by the popular mind will be this necessity for something to take...
...define the meaning of the word, leaving until his next lecture the discussion of what Christ really taught by his parables. Parable really means a comparison or likeness, and as in all speech we are simply executing comparison the word came to mean in the olden times to talk or to speak. Parable afterwards came to mean condensed speech, and in this way the smiles of Homer and others and the fables of Aesop are kindred to the parables of Jesus. Two fables occur in the Old Testament. Jesus must have been familiar with the use of fables...
Last Wednesday Professor Norton lectured at the Institute of Technology on "The Culture required of an Artist." Tonight his subject is "Architecture as a Fine Art;" and next week he will talk on "The opportunities of the Architect in America...
...talk before the College Conference last night, President Eliot brought out many interesting and significant facts in relation to Harvard's development and the advance of the whole educational system in America. Of his observations perhaps none was more striking than when he spoke of the rapidity with which western colleges are approaching the high standard of the eastern colleges. For Harvard at this time such a fact has especial significance. We are now in the midst of a discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand...
...this evening, has given way to President Eliot, who will speak upon "Harvard and the West." The opportunity of hearing President Eliot speak is seldom given to the students; but when the chance comes the University takes full advantage of it. Tonight, moreover, the subject of President Eliot's talk will be unusually interesting. In the past two or three years a cry has been raised in some quarters that Harvard is weakly represented in the West, and columns of statistics have been compiled to prove or disprove, as the case may be, such a statement. The president, during...