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...Lecture Course in Religion" which is now being given on Sunday afternoons at Peabody Hall under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association, and the Christian Association. The average attendance of these, lectures has been a little less than 300 thus giving ample proof of the interest in religion among men of the university. It is to accommodate this increasing interest that the executive committees have brought forth the proposal for a course in religion...
...divisional examinations justifiable? To the serious student, they are merely a proof of his general knowledge, and subordinate to his higher aims. To the other types of student they are an additional burden, a source of anxiety, or an unmitigated hore. Divisional examinations can never show brilliance of intellect, except of the synthetic variety, as they are too inclusive, and frequently contain questions that are properly subjects for books. Would President Lowell grant a degree to a man who wrote an excellent divisional examination and also failed to obtain in his Senior year the required number of credits? Such procedure...
That others are of like mind is certain. The violent protest of the alumni at Professor Baker's resignation is a partial proof. The report of Mr. Owen Wister's committee is another--and more conclusive...
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Professor McDougall's report on the "Margery Mediumship?. In last evening's Transcript reaches the conclusion that every unbiased observer might have expected. He can find no proof justifying the award to her of the "Scientific American's" prize for the first conclusive case of spiritual manifestations. Professor McDougall assumes the scientific attitude of "not proved". The perusal of his evidence might even lead a casual observer to cry fraud...