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...present time, however, the tendency is to regard theism as a conclusion rather than as an axiom. Throughtful men nowadays do not consider revelations as miraculous disclosures direct from God, but rather as the gradual awakening of an inward impelling force for good. This conception is in line with a changed idea of man. Of late years it has come to be believed that the will, the ambition and the emotions should be considered co-ordinate with the reason as guides to man's actions. This idea brings with it the feeling that a conviction due to perfectly worked...
...result of these changed convictions about man and truth is the alteration of the conception of revelation. Instead of regarding as revelations only direct and actual communications with God, thoughtful men of the present time consider that a revelation is any awakening of spiritual energy for good...
...delivery the two teams were very evenly matched, although the advantage rested with the University speakers. Wagner spoke with fluency and finish, but too little action; Ewell, for Yale, was especially direct and convincing, but sometimes made a climax in delivery when there was none in thought; Fox was rather unnatural in his style of speaking; Lockwood made up in earnestness what he lacked in variety; Lyman spoke straight to his audience and was effective, though slightly lacking in breath; Grossman, combining ease with vigor and variety, was probably the best speaker of the evening...
...Sidney Lee, Litt.D., lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening upon the subject. "Foreign Influences on Shakespeare." Abundant evidence exists. I said, which points to direct foreign in menaces upon Shakespeare, but we must attribute the skill with which he handle his foreign dramas rather to the gener diffusion of thought during the Renais since and to his own preeminent genin than to the influence of any particular foreign writers. To all his erections intensively gives universal emotions an at the same time, never losing sight his setting, he infuses, in his character the essential racial idiosyncrasies manned by the environment...
Physics 11.--The Theory of Primary and Secondary Batteries, Galvanic Cells; Lead, Iron-Nickel, and Thallium Storage Batteries: Electricity direct from coal. Tu., Th., Sat., at 10. Dr. H. W. Morse...