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...from the prophecy itself, and yet he was one of the three great prophets who influenced the Jews after the exile. Ewald and Pusey believed Haggai was very old when he began to prophesy (from the sixth verse of the second chapter of the book itself.) Owing to his age his words would have great influence and his remembering the first temple would be a motive in his urging the building of a second. The prophecy was addressed to about two hundred thousand Jews, who, having returned from Babylon some years before, had become either indifferent to rebuilding the temple...
...determined by three things: the special needs of special times; the power of reaction and the power of some dominant mind. These things, however, are but temporary, and the result is a widely varying standard of morality. Necessarily in our estimate of men we make allowance for the age they lived in, but the man who would rise above his time must make his own standard...
...Jordan's first experience as a college instructor was in the botanical department of Cornell. While teaching botany there he himself took the regular college course, and graduated in 1872, at the age of twenty-one. The next four years he spent at the Indiana State Medical College, in the vacations lecturing on marine botany at the Anderson Summer School of Natural History, on Penikese Island, Mass., and on botany and ichthyology at the Harvard School of Geology at the Cumberland Gap. He next held in succession the chairs of biology in Butler University and in the Indiana University...
...Duffield's sketch of Sir John Suckling, one of the wits of the Elizabethan age, is sprightly and vivacious. The delectable bits of contemporary gossip, anecdote, and biography have all been culled and the result is a literary morsel appetizing to the lover of Herrick and kindred spirits, among whom Suckling holds a high rank...
...give no comprehensive summary such as the articles spoken of furnish; but we present what seem to us a few of the chief points on either side. Those who urge the new plan must assume the burden of proof. They say: first, that the present age of entrance into college is too high; second, that the growth in our standards and efficiency and the contemporary rise of the graduate school have been so great as to make the A. B. degree no longer the limit of general culture; third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America...