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...Parkes Cadman, D.D., of New York, will deliver in Phillips Brooks House at 6.45 tonight the sixth of a series of addresses on the "Beginnings of Christian Faith." This series of addresses, dealing with the fundamental principles of Christianity, was inaugurated by the Harvard Christian Association at the request of men who were interested in the talks given last March by Mr. John R. Mott; the five previous addresses have been given by Dr. McKenzle, Hon. S. B. Capen, Mr. Charles F. Shaw, Rev. Edward M. Noyes, and Dr. W. T. Grenfell. The meeting tonight will be open only...
...answer to the challenge sent by Harvard and Yale to Oxford and Cambridge for a regular set of track games was received last Monday. On Tuesday, at a meeting in New York it was decided to concur with the Englishmen's request that the games be held in September instead of July. September 21 was the date decided upon. Those present at the meeting were E. J. Wendell '82, J. W. Hallowell '01 and T. Gerrish '01 for Harvard, and Walter Camp, H. S. Brooks, W. M. Fincke '01 and S. L. Coy '01 for Yale. The request of Harvard...
...Board of Overseers yesterday voted to request the President and Fellows to appoint a standing committee of five, of whom at least two shall be members of the Board of Overseers and one a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to which shall be submitted all plans and designs of permanent buildings for the University, together with the proposed sites, so that the committee may advise in respect to them...
...canoe, about six feet long, complete in every detail, was made at the request of Dr. Agassiz; it is the model of a large Fiji outrigger working canoe, and is distinguished from a war canoe by the fact that the latter is made double instead of with an outrigger. The boat is caulked with gum, which is protected by strips of palm, and the various portions of the hull are fastened together by ropes of cocoanut fibre. All the cordage is made of this same fibre. The large lateen sail is made of strips of pandanas leaf, sewed together with...
...report to the contrary, the arrangement made by Professor Hanus with the Cambridge School Board still remains in force. By this arrangement Harvard students teach in the four Cambridge public schools, the Manual Training, the English High, the Russell and the Agassiz. When, however, the teachers of other schools requested recently an extension of the system to their schools, the request was voted down by the Cambridge School Board and the agreement as originally stated remains in force. Besides the men teaching in Cambridge, there are students engaged in the same work at Medford and Newton...