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Professor Arnold, who was born in Beirut, Syria, in 1872, received his degree from Ohio Weslyan University in 1892 and was graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1895. The following year he was granted a degree of Ph.D. by Columbia University and became Curator of the Department of Antiquities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He taught at the Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1908 to 1922 was Andover Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature at Harvard. From 1922 to his death he held the Hancock professorship, which is one of the oldest in the University...
...Weslyan vs. Stevens at Middle-town...
...There is a tradition that Thomas Jefferson was one of its founders. The original chapter has long been defunct, as is now the college itself. Twenty-two chapters now exist, being, in the order of the establishmen, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Union, Bowdoin, Brown, Trinity, Weslyan, Adelbert, Vermont, Amherst, University City of New York, Kenyon, Williams, College City of New York, Middlebury, Coumbia, Rutgers, Hamilton, Hobart, Madison, Cornell. Long before 1825, however, when the earliest of the modern societies was founded, Phi Beta Kappa had ceased to be a secret organization and became, as now, an honorary literary society, to which...
...Yale freshman eleven defeated the Weslyan freshman by a score of 8 to 2. The game was very evenly contested, the ball being several times close to each goal...
Extract from the Yale Record of the morning of the Harvard Weslyan foot ball game: "The Wesleyan team, which developed so rapidly and successfully during the past season, and which plays the 'Yale game' with such enthusiasm, has our best wishes for a credible showing today." Extract from our Monday report of the Harvard Wesleyan game: "Wesleyan took every unfair advantage that they could. Every one of their men was warned, and one of the men was ordered off the field by the referee." We shall look to the next issue of the Record for congratulations to the Wesleyan team...