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...York Underworld" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bates is the head of the Spring Street Mission in the middle of the settlement district of New York. During his many years of active service he has come in direct touch with the life there and has acquired an intimate knowledge of the people and the conditions under which they live...
...lectures this year, is author of "The Promise of American Life" and other well-known books. He has announced the following dates and topics: April 23, "New Tendencies in Democracy"; April 25, "The Old Democracy and the Constitution"; April 28, "The New Democracy and the Constitution"; April 30, "Direct versus Representative Government"; May 2, "The Mechanism of Popular Representation...
...Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Mr. Stephenson wrote to the South Park Commissioners of Chicago, who have charge of the three caravels, last February, for permission to take them to the Exposition and bring them back. The Associated Press yesterday announced that the request has been granted though no direct communication has as yet reached Mr. Stephenson...
...tendency of development in academic circles today is to bring colleges and professional schools into closer touch with the community. Hitherto, educational institutions have been judged more by the quality of their instruction and the character of their students than they have by any standard of direct service to the community. Now, however, it has come about that the community is expecting something more than merely training for a selected group and is looking to the scholar for the solution of all sorts of problems. Consequently, in order to be a national institution bound by close ties to the whole...
...pervading principle throughout the "Divina Commoedia" is the personal revelation which it signifies in the personal experiences of Dante. At the very outset, Dante is shown that he cannot take the direct route he had chosen, towards the light of God, because of the obstacles he had created through his own sin. Beatrice, later, reproaches him for losing his brilliant ideal, at her death, and falling into sin, such that he can find Heaven only through Hell. One of the great motifs of the poem lies in this fall of Dante, under the pressure of circumstances, from a high spiritual...