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...leading article is "A History of Engineering at Harvard University" by Assistant Professor J. L. Love. It presents in detail a sketch of engineering instruction at the University and gives an account of the progress of the Lawrence Scientific School from its origin in 1847 down to the present day. The steady growth of the department during these years, necessitating wider instruction and new equipment, is clearly shown. The next is on "Pierce Hall" by Professor Hollis. After showing the need which there was for a large building to carry on the work of the Scientific department, he gives...
...Department on the History of Religion, giving three full courses, one half course and a series of twelve lectures on the Introduction to the Study of Theology. Professor E. C. Moore will give one new course on "The Church since the Reformation," and a new half-course on "The Origin and Growth of the New Testament Canon." Professor Lyon will give the course on the "History of Israel" in place of Professor Kellner. In connection with the Study of Church History, the announcement calls attention to the great number of historical courses in the languages, Philosophy, Economics and the fine...
...These reasons are:--The Puritan origin of the University makes us hold in grateful remembrance the heroes of Protestantism--Luther, Erasmus, and their kindred spirits--and the German Princes who upheld that cause through long years of cruel warfare. The Puritan Government of Massachusetts followed anxiously the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War and was in the habit of ordering public thanksgiving for good news from Germany...
...figures, of the enrolment of the past year, the admission examination records and the number of men transferred to higher classes, or dropped to lower classes or from College. Concerning the sixty Freshmen dropped from the class at the end of last year, the Dean says: "Inquiry into the origin and record" of these men "yields no clear explanation of their failure; it shows, however, that, if public schools contributed to the Freshman class their usual proportion of between thirty and forty per cent., they succeeded somewhat better than private schools in sending pupils who weathered the Freshman year. Inquiry...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Reconnaissance of the Coast Range of British Columbia. Dr. R.A. Daly.--The Origin of the White River Beds (review.) Professor Davis. Rotch Building...