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Professor George P. Fisher of Yale university is to write a series on "The Nature and Method of Revelation," which will attract every Bible student. Bishop Potter of New York will be one of several prominent writers who are to contribute a series of "Present-day Papers" on living topics, and there will be art papers, timely articles, etc., etc., and the choicest pictures that the greatest artists and engravers can produce...
...Oxford is always a strangely fascinating city. Why is it so much further removed from present-day life than its rival university town-Cambridge? It is needless to enter upon an analysis of the fact, but so it is. Oxford belongs to the middle ages. Its spirit is both academic and ecclesiastic. The university is Oxford. The city lives for the university. All the deliciously beautiful architecture of the quaint old city is, in one way or another, connected with the university. All in all, there are twenty-five colleges affiliated with the university; and besides these, all of which...
...also contains a very interesting account of the origin of the "Hasty Pudding Club." From the eating of "hasty pudding" he traces the transition to college commons. After an account of some of the scenes of the early "commons" he contrasts the old system with the one of the present-day - Memorial...