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Last evening Dr. McPherson conducted the last of his series of services in Appleton Chapel. The attendance was unusually large. Dr. McPherson chose his text from Matthew v, 7: "I came not to destroy but to fulfil." He spoke, in effect, as follows...
Human character may be classed in two main phases; it is at once an effect and a cause. Looking to the past and to the future, character moulds itself partly into conservatism and partly into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...take on its character as money. Gold to the value of L40,000,000 sterling was carried by Alexander into Macedonia, and from Macedonia it was carried by Paullus to Rome. Suddenly, violently, the whole mass accumulated unpper non-economic principles came under the control of economic law. The effect upon prices was enormous. It was characteristic of the Roman People that this effect was turned to evil...
...strong one, the individual members of the company seeming to be especially fitted for their respective parts. Mr. Wolff as the Lord Chancellor was thoroughly at home. Mr. Murray as Strephon, Mr. Persse as Mt. Ararat, and Mr. Wooley as Tolloller rendered the familiar airs with charming effect, while Miss Lane as Phyllus was even more dainty and bewitching than ever. Miss Mason sang Iolanthe with great clearness, Miss Leighton was sufficietly impressive as the Fairy Queen, ably seconded by her fairy lieutenants, Miss Ladd and Miss Quinlan...
...years of continuous and successful service as Professor and Dean. The report of the School shows that the percentage of college graduates in the School has risen this year to 84. The decrease in members next year, when the admission requirements of a previous academic degree will go into effect, is therefore not likely to be large...