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Long continued mental labor, especially where the feelings are enlisted, makes fearful drafts upon the bodily frame. With sound, sturdy, bodily health, one can not only labor mentally more hours in the twenty four, but can, while working, throw into his task a greater amount of intellectual force. The mind...
The students of the University of Berlin recently celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luther, by a grand "Festcommers." Being desirous to see a good specimen of this thoroughly German student-custom, we procured a ticket and on the appointed evening made our way to the place...
Toward nine o'clock, one of these officers, the "Commander of the Commers," drew his sword, and slapping the flat side of the blade on the table, called for "Silentium" and introduced the first speaker, one of the Professors. This gentleman delivered a short address upon Luther and his work...
So the evening passed on. The professors made addresses, all of course relating to Luther and to the lessons to be drawn from his life, and drank to the health of the students; songs were sung and the whole proceedings were interspersed with periods for conversation, during which the band...
Oxford is greatly excited by an attempt to appoint a dissentor as examiner of students in church theology, including the "39 articles." Prof. Jowett, lately attempted, according to custom, to address a meeting in Latin, but mixed his genders, broke down and fell back on English.