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...Lord Rupert William Ernest Gascoyne-Cecil, rector of Bishop's Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, will conduct prayers in Appleton Chapel this morning, in place of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann. Lord Cecil, who is a son of the third Marquis of Salisbury, graduated from University College, Oxford, in 1886, and received the degree of M.A. in 1889. He has been rural dean of Hertford since 1904, and honorary chaplain to the King since...
...American Universities Club of London has been recently founded, with Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, and Woodrow Wilson, Ph.D., LL.D.; as honorary presidents. The purpose of the club is to afford personal, social and business advantages to Americans either resident in or visiting, England. Membership is open to graduates or undergraduates of any university or college in the United States or Canada; applications should be sent to the secretary, 68 Pall Mall, London, S. W. The dues for residents in North America are: entrance fee, $10.50; annual dues...
...invented nor first applied the principles of the steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...
...Fogg Art Museum has purchased "Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop," a small drawing in brown wash by Rembrandt. This drawing, which is an excellent example of the work of the great Dutch master, formed part of the collection of Lord Warwick. It has been placed on exhibition in the printroom of the Museum, together with a selection of Rembrandt's etchings, which illustrate his work in dry point, and show his treatment of portrait, landscape, and figure subjects...
...tone, the gaining of the serious upon the comic element, which is one of the most marked features of the play, became distinctly perceptible. This improvement was sustained through the third act. Here a number of minor characters make their appearance, and the scene of the reception for Lord Ravensbane, falling, as it did, within the range of what may fairly be expected of amateur talent, was carried through with vivacity. Meantime the performance of the hero was constantly gaining in firmness and assurance, and Dickon was more and more admirable. The beginning of the fourth act showed a falling...