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Bishop William Hare of South Dakota spoke last night at the invitation of the St. Paul's Society, in Sever 11, taking as his subject "Christo et Ecclesiae." He said, the most striking thing about these words is that they are in the dative case. It is not merely two words, "Christ and the Church," but the dative case is used, grammarians tell us, to name one for whom something is done or to whom something is given. So we are to work for Christ and His Church...
...John Mott of New York lectured last night to an audience of about two hundred in Sever 11 on "Personal Purity." He spoke simply and plainly, but very strongly. He sketched briefly the results of impurity and made a few suggestions as to how temptations might best be resisted...
...Copeland spoke last night in Sever 11 on Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Henry James. In brief the talk was as follows...
...Copeland then spoke enthusiastically of a book of poems which had lately appeared, called "A Little English Gallery," written by Miss Louise Imogen Guiney. He said that it was an agreeable account of some well known characters in literature, and that in this volume Miss Guiney had shown herself a real poet...
...Copeland then spoke of du Maurier's earlier work, Peter Ibbetson, which, he said, is a far more delicate book, in an artistic sense, than "Tribly." And it has the added advantage of keeping up the interest...