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...prevented from giving last Friday by illness. The conferences will be given on Friday evenings to March 6, and each will be three-quarters of an hour in length. "The Parables of Jesus" will be discussed from the standpoint of contemporary history and in their bearing on present-day life. The course will be similar to the one which Dean Fenn gave last year in Phillips Brooks House, and will be identical with a series of Sunday noon talks which he is now giving at the Arlington Street Church, Boston...
...second series of conferences on the religious questions of the day, to be held every Friday night, will take place in the Noble Room, Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 7 o'clock. The purpose of these meetings is to give an opportunity for frank discussion of present-day religion and theology. They will be under the leadership of Dr. S. McComb of Emmanuel Church, Boston, who will introduce discussion by a brief address, after which the meeting will be opened to the public. It is hoped that these meetings will prove an attraction, as Dr. McComb is well fitted...
...Mabilleau is a leading authority on present-day social questions and has written a number of valuable books on these subjects. During his stay in this country which will extend over a period of two or three months, he will address a large number of educational institutions and will make an extensive study of economic conditions for the French government. He will also try to find a suitable site for the proposed French Industrial College...
...Stebbins says in his preface, "One would not claim for the poems here presented the depth of a Browning nor the metrical perfection of a Tennyson; but one can assert with reason that they are worthy of the attention of thoughtful readers." Nor is it too much to say that all the poems in the volume have considerable merit, and that the majority of them are decidedly better than the verses printed in the present-day magazines. It ought to be a matter of satisfaction and pride that they are the work of Harvard...
...Rivalry of Nations," by E. A. Start '93, is another article which deserves mention. In is an instalment of a continued history of present-day world politics, and as such possesses great current interest...