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Sunday, February 10, has been appointed by the World's Student Christian Federation as a day of prayer for the colleges. Special services for the occasion will be held on Sunday the tenth or on the preceding Friday the tenth or on the preceding Friday evening in many of the churches in Cambridge. At these services Harvard men will speak on the devotional and philanthropic work of the Harvard Christian Association, considered as a part of the work of the universal students' federation. The regular meeting of the Christian Association on Wednesday night, February 6, will be made, in response...
...addition to these photographs now being taken in Cambridge, a large number of duplicate pictures are also being taken at the station in Peru. The Bruce telescope there in use is the largest photographic telescope in the world. These photographs are also to be preserved at the Cambridge astronomical library and by a comparison of the two it is hoped that, interesting and valuable conclusions will be reached...
...Macmillan Company has recently published a new book by Dr. Francis G. Peabody, entitled "Jesus Christ and the Social Question." Dr. Peabody presents a study of the teachings of Jesus in their relation to men as members of society and to the great social and civic problems of the world. Jesus Christ came not to construct society, but to inspire men to fashion it; his spirit is meant first to quicken men in realization of their mutual responsibility and to work through them the upbuilding of the social structure...
...things we are more than conquerers.." To overcome temptations, to surmount obstacles, to be the conqueror in life's battle is seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over...
...further observation in the United States. It is intended then to continue the investigation at the station in South America from which the first observations were carried on, and where, it is believed, the planet will be visible about a month longer than in any other part of the world. The final results of the work will not be officially computed until spring...