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Prof. Goodwin, whose bright face brought out a loud welcome, after thanking the gentlemen for their kind reception, said he could not sit still and hear these statements. The gentleman entered on a humerous speech, and, after creating repeated laughter, went on to say that 30 years ago five teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Alumni Reunion. | 2/4/1887 | See Source »

In his collection upon the sixteenth century, however, it is the Reformation and its forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/3/1887 | See Source »

"Whoever seeks to solve the problem of Prayer-and-Providence' (namely, whether Supplication is only a vehicle for Aspiration), should ponder 'The Prayer of the Presidents;' a model prayer, devoted as the verse of Wesley, dignified as the style of Washington, undogmatic and rational - not to say witty - as the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prayer of the Presidents. | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

The February number of Harper's Magazine is just out, and contains the first numbers of Mr. Howells' new story, "April Hopes"; this instalment is entirely devoted to Class Day at Harvard. It is a clever description enough, though one would judge that Mr. Howel's has not seen a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/25/1887 | See Source »

Dr. Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Gladden. | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

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