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...Europe in the eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns and the Vandels had made Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things, was a young...
Will contain serial stories by Charles Egbert Craddock, author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," "In the Tennessee Mountains," etc. Henry James, "The Princess Casomassina" will continue until August, 1886. William H. Bishop, author of "The House of a Merchant Prince." James Russell Lowell will write for the Atlantic Monthly for 1886. John Fiske will contribute papers on United States History. Philip Gilbert Hamerton will furnish a series of articles comparing French and English people, character, opinions, customs, etc. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will contribute some short stories...
...Yale academic freshman crew consists of Bishop, Newell, Beckwith, West, Donelly and Moses; the scientific freshman crew of Bull, Bond, Stewart, Carter, Dockendorff and Franchot (stroke...
Cornell is to enjoy a course of sermons from Lyman Abbott, Edward Everett Hale, H. R. Haweis, the distinguished English divine, C. A. Sims, Chancellor, Syracuse University, Bishop Garrett, Texas, and Washington Gladden...
Episcopal Theological School. Commencement Exercises and Sermon by Bishop McLaren of Chicago. St. John's Memorial Chapel...