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...Horace M. Kallen '03, of the Department of Philosophy, will give the first of a series of twelve lectures on Pragmatism, in Emerson F, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The special subject of today's lecture will be "The Scientific and Ethical Background of Pragmatism." It will be open to members of the University and of Radcliffe...
...picture is on panel and represents the Madonna and child with youthful angels playing upon musical instruments. It is one of the early type with a gilt background. Certain crudities in the drawing and workmanship are apparent even to those who are not used to pictures of this period, but the sympathetic observer will find that the painting has splendid qualities if judged as a decorative piece. The color and design are rich and beautiful...
...promise of "Salvation Nell,"--both good and bad. It is a play full of emotional variation; it thrills the audience and leaves it tired. Excitement is added to horror, and despair to feverish action. Mr. Sheldon exhibits racial hatreds, sinister politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with the sense...
...Leonard, R. MacVeagh, G. Mather, E. K. Merrihew, H. M. Pivnie, J. P. Rice, H. B. Richardson, E. St. John. G. E. Stephenson, J. Tyler, R. Warren, A. L. Washburn, A. G. Winward, D. J. Witmer and C. H. Wolfe. The sweaters have blue numerals on a white background and must be ordered at Brine's before Thursday...
...exclude all narrative and religious teaching of the Gospels. The ethical teaching is inexplicably interwoven with the religious, and Jesus never separated the two, but for the sake of convenience an arbitrary division has been made. The great proportion of the teachings of Jesus are ethical with a religious background...