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...must say that Columbia shows great presumption in proposing any such arrangement. If she wishes to row Yale - a very laudable desire by the way - there is no reason why she should not do so, but to drag Harvard into such a race is more than she has a right to propose...
...Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange of all, in the "Life and Letters of Mr. Darwin" now in press, he declares that it was Malthus' Doctrine of Population" which first suggested the theory to his mind also...
...Appleton Chapel. The sermon was upon the death of spiritual life. Many men who have come to a low degree of righteousness are characterized by bestiality and all the lower forms of vice, but there is a still larger class who have lost all power to distinguish between right and wrong in matters that are considered generally of very little moment; but this insensibility to spiritual things is fully as bad as is that which is popularly called vice...
...hope yet to see the day when the fullest knowledge of any branch can be gained right here in our country, and pilgrimage to foreign resorts of study will no longer be necessary. But concentration of money and energy upon a few or even one of our institutions can alone bring about this result...
...Right Reverend F. D. Huntington, Bishop of Central New York, will preach before the St. Paul's Society this evening, at half past seven, in St. John's Chapel. The public is cordially invited. A portion of the church will be reserved for students until...