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...yellow outbursts of two years ago, when periodical aped periodical, and newsboys screamed themselves hoarse. And like many of them it may come to an inglorious end. The twentieth century has neither the time nor the humor to listen to the echoes of dilettantism from the reign of Queen Anne. But that the editors should have realized before they started on their career as Spectators. At any rate, after all is said and done, these sporadic leaflets at least provide amusement for the college, and help to break the monotony of conventional routine. We should thank them for that...
...Harvard track man is asked what he would prescribe first of all to the building up of a successful team he is pretty sure to answer, "A large number of determined and persistent candidates." Twenty-two years ago the writer saw at Queen's Club in London a Harvard high hurdler who had worked patiently for years without making the team, finally triumph over the best of Yale, Oxford and Cambridge on a grass track in the then excellent time of 15 3-5 seconds. There have been scores of instances in which men who showed little promise at first...
...answer may now be found in the parallel of a pitiful story dealing with Russia, Queen Catharine and an innocent little violet. It seems that one evening, Her Highness discovered the flower in the strange process of growing in the Royal park, and deciding not to pluck it until the following dawn, caused a sentry to be stationed near at hand to indicate the spot. The incident promptly escaped the Queen's memory, with the result that the devoted sentinel spent the rest of his days loyally guarding the sacred precinct...
Professor William Morgan, D.D., of Queen's Theological College, Kingston, Ontario, will give the Dudleian Lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House on the subject of "Revealed Religion...
Reverend William Morgan, professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Queen's Theological College, Kingston, Ontario, will lecture tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. "The Idea of Revelation" will be the subject of the lecture, which is one of the historic series of Dudleian Lectures founded a century and a half ago by Paul Dudley...