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Botanical Club.Professor Goodale spoke last evening on Public Museums of Natural History. He gave an account of our University Museum, founded by Louis Agassiz, and pointed out the lines on which Alexander Agassiz has fostered its growth. A public museum like ours has two distinct functions: First, the accumulation and utilization of materials for research; and, second, the display of selected specimens for the instruction of the public. He described the principal museums in this country and Europe, and closed by a short description of the interesting public museums in the Southern Hemisphere...
Religious Union.Dr. Santayana spoke last night before the Religious Union on the Mystery of Evil, taking up and questioning several of the arguments of Professor Fiske. The address was very informal and an opportunity was given the members of the Union for discussion...
Professor Peabody was the next speaker. He spoke more particularly of the practical part of the work. The purpose of the meeting, he said, was two-fold. In the first place it was to show to the newcomers the nature of the religious societies of the University. In the second place it was to do the former work of these societies more systematically and better...
Harvard Union.An unusually large number attended the competitive debate for membership in the Harvard Union last night. After the principal disputants, E. H. Warren '95 and S. H. Foster L. S., a large number of candidates spoke from the floor. They were, for the affirmative: N. B. Marshall '97, T. Weston '95, J. P. Hall L. S., H. J. Peters '95, A. E. Dacy L. S., H. K. Stanley '97, J. B. Stearns '96, P. G. Noon '95, L. B. Murdock '96, R. C. Davis '97, C. E. Browne '98, H. R. Hughes '97 and T. J. Butler...
...number of rules were voted on, the debate began. The subject was: "Resolved, That more class feeling at Harvard would be to its best interests." L. E. Guillow, S. T. Frost and L. P. Marvin supported the affirmative, and H. D. Bushnell, A. W. Reynolds and H. F. Robinson spoke on the negative. Both sides were well contested, the debate resulting in favor of the negative...