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Several years ago Professor Hanus invited some of the leading American publishers to make an exhibit of text-books at the Harvard Summer School, under the conditions that the books exhibited should be placed in charge of Harvard attendant and should not be offered for sale. The object of these conditions was to make it possible for the teachers at the Summer School to examine critically representative text-books without being solicited to buy them. In response to Professor Hanus's invitation several hundred books were sent and after the close of the Summer School the publishers allowed these...
...object of the work has been so to regulate the water in the tank that it will not offer too much resistance to the oar, and will correspond in its general action to the motion of water when the boat is moving. To accomplish this there will be two propellers fixed at the bow of the boat, run by electric motors and other specially constructed machinery in addition if necessary. In this way there will be a continual current of water, starting at the bow, turned by deflecting planes down either side and returning by the added power...
...object of these meetings is to place before the members of the University moral and ethical questions, to arouse in them a deeper interest in matters religious and to stimulate them to living more intelligent, more effective, and more spiritual lives...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
...annual convention of the American Republican College League is now being held in Philadelphia, with its headquarters at the Hotel Walton, directed by the authorities at the University of Pennsylvania. The object of the convention is to draw up a definite plan of future work. All of the eastern colleges and universities are to be represented and delegates have been sent from most of the western colleges, including Leland Stanford and California. The Harvard Republican Club has sent the following delegates to the convention: H. B. Kirtland '01, H. H. Stipp 3L., W. T. Foster '01, A. E. Lunt...