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Approval of the recent modification of the elective system was expressed by President Maclaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor J. H. Ropes '89 showed that the present wide-spread criticism of colleges in general is a distinct advantage inasmuch as it may be easily answered...
...purpose of the club, as stated in the constitution, is as follows: "Since there is a wide-spread opinion that the present state of society is fundamentally imperfect, and that a basis of reconstruction must be found, the purpose of this club shall be the study of Socialism and all other radical programs of reform which aim at a better organic development of society. By Socialism shall be understood, the ownership by the community of the means of production and the extension of the functions of the state to eradicate the individualistic basis of the present economic system. The club...
...Ingersoll lecture for this year was delivered last night by the Rev. Charles F. Dole D.D., '68, of the First Congregational Church, Jamaica Plain, who spoke on "The Hope of Immortality and Our Reasons for It." After acknowledging the wide-spread skepticism of the present day, and speaking of that class of people whose desire to believe prevents them from entering the discussion at all, Dr. Dole went on to discuss various arguments on this most perplexing of all subjects...
...educated men, it is demoralizing to witness wide-spread misery and unhappiness without doing something to remedy such extreme evils. Participation in the industrial combat may occur from any one of three sides--that of the employers, the employed, or the public, including the government...
...long service from 1882 to 1900 as minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York. Dr. Van Dyke became known as one of the most powerful preachers in the Presbyterian Church, and his published poems and stories, including his widely known "Fisherman's Luck," and "Little Rivers," have made for him a high and wide-spread reputation as an author...