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...first floor there will be several small recitation rooms and one large lecture hall, seating 400 students. The rest of the floor will be taken up by a philosophical library, comprising, in addition to the regular text books, an extensive collection of philosophical works. The second story will contain a few small recitation rooms and several seminary rooms for advanced work. About one-half of this floor will be turned over to the educational and sociological departments. The entire third floor will be used for a psychological laboratory. There will be one large room where work of a general character...
...chief features of the change are two large rooms in which have been placed two libraries of the department, one of which is made available for the first time and the other of which is entirely new. The first of these is a library of over four thousand text books and works of reference from schools of all grades. They have been given to the department by various publishers throughout the country, and comprise nearly all modern school books in use in the United States. The library will constantly be kept up to date by new donations and revisions...
...James Buckley of New York preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text: "To an unknown god," Acts, 12th chapter, 23d verse. His sermon was a forcible explanation of the absolute necessity of believing our universe wisely ordered and ruled by divine intelligence, instead of believing it un-ruled and purposeless...
...question of divine power in the world, he said, which was filling the Greek mind when Paul made his sublime speech to the Athenians from Mars Hill, in which are found the words of the text. The Greeks had been imagining, just as men have always imagined, what forces ruled this world, and in their anxiety to reverence every divine power, they had erected an altar "to an unknown god." It was this god that Paul so marvelously described to them. His conception, familiar to all of us today, of the one all-powerful, all-loving God, was simply...
...College Library has lately received from Dr. S. A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a copy of Virgil "ad usum Delphini," printed in London in 1:40, which has served four generations of Harvard graduates as a text book; it bears the school-boy autographs of its last three owners, while the name of the first owner has been written by another, presumably by his father. The successive users of the book were Joshua Green, of the Class of 1749, his son Joshua, of the class of 1784, his grandson Joshua, of the class...