Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inclusive. Members of the Harvard camera club, who wish to submit photographs, should hand them in to T. W. Sears, 22 Prescott street, before 6 o'clock, next Wednesday. Out of the pictures submitted the best 50 will be chosen for the exhibition. The University of Pennsylvania and three western universities will also exhibit 50 photographs each...
...Hall pointed out that his subject was one which would have caused laughter in a university audience only a few years ago, as until recently western peoples considered Christianity to be the only religion and that non-religion and irreligion alone stood opposed to it. Happily Christians now see that Asia, not Israel whence Christianity sprung, is the mother of religions and that there are other vital faiths besides their own. The East has clung to the pantheistic and polytheistic of these beliefs, but the West has developed monotheism of which Christianity is the highest form...
...instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental mind. An atmosphere of mystery enshrouds the universe. The Western man seeks the truth outside himself, through researches of science. The Easterner tries to find the truth within himself by thought and meditation...
...Saturday, February 24 President Hadley made public for the first time before the Federation of Western Alumni Associations of Yale the vote of the corporation in regard to a new organization to be known as the Alumni Advisory Board. The underlying purpose is to meet the desire of graduates in different sections of the country for representation in the councils of the University--a desire which cannot be entirely satisfied through membership in the Yale Corporation...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Finger Lakes of Western New York," Professor Davis; "Recent Changes of Level in Yakutat Bay, Alaska," (Illustrated,) Mr. Lawrence Martin, Geological Lecture Room...