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Professor J. Rendel Harris, lecturer on Paleography in the University of Cambridge, spoke in Divinity Chapel last night on the "Methods of Research in Eastern Libraries." During the past twelve years Professor Harris has made explorations chiefly in Eastern Syria, Northern Africa, and Bulgaria for lost manuscripts, and has added many valuable works to the library of Haverford College...
...Vespers yesterday Rev. F. G. Peabody spoke in memory of Judge Hoar. He said Judge Hoar was one of the most prominent citizens of Massachusetts and one of the best known of Harvard graduates. He was for twenty-four years an Overseer of the College and for the greater part of that time president of the Board. In character he was one of the last of the Puritans, a typical New England man. Like the Puritans, he was simple minded, devoted to his duty, and of a strong Christian faith. His wit was like a New England winter, bracing...
...Henry Lunn, chaplain of the London Polytechnic School and president of the "Grindewald Conferences," spoke last night in Sanders Theatre on "Christian Reunion...
...Peabody introduced Dr. Lunn, saying his work of bringing together all denominations of Christians at Grindewald was a particularly interesting one to Harvard men who are familiar with the somewhat similar plan pursued with regard to the preachers at Appleton Chapel. Dr. Lunn spoke substantially as follows...
...Robert Treat Paine of the class of '55 spoke in Holden Chapel last evening on "Solved and Unsolved Problems in Charitable Work." His address in brief was as follows...