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...main points of the following article are taken, word for word, from Scribner's Magazine for July...
...them. There was formed a Medical Students Christian Association. A great cricketer named Studd, and a stroke of the Cambridge crew named Smith wished to go to China as missionaries. An opportunity was given them to speak to the students at Edinburgh. They were most enthusiastically received and their word had the most marvelous effect. There were countless instances of conversion. It was suggested that the workers should go to other universities. Everywhere they found agnostics, unbelievers, but their influence was such that many were converted, especially at the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow...
Yesterday morning, Prof. Emerton lectured to the students in history, 20, on the "Sources of Historical Investigation." The following is the substance of his lecture : What are the original sources accessible to students of history? What are the misconceptions of the word history? History is a record of the lives of men in groups. History is not the philosophy of history. Many believe that history is all in the books. In this they are much mistaken-as much as they would be if they should refer natural science and language to books. If one should learn history he must...