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Last evening, Professor Goodale spoke on the subject of the Hippocratic Oath. After a short account of the medical profession among the early Greeks, he analyzed the oath, or obligation, taken by the students of medicine, in the time of Pericles. The candidate for graduation promised solemnly that he would be loyal in every way to his chosen profession, that he would abstain from all wrong and injustice, that he would not furnish poison to anyone soliciting it, that he would not lead astray anyone committed to his charge, but that he would pass his life and exercise...
...spite of the driving storm a large audience gathered in Sanders Theatre to the fourth in the series of lectures by Professor Royce. He spoke in a very interesting way of hypnotism in relation to the psychology of imitation. He finds hypnotism nothing essentially different from the normal mental processes, the peculiarity being that the imitative faculty is exercised under conditions in which the ordinarily prominent self-assertiveness of the will is in abeyance. The hypnotized state closely resembles that of normal drowsiness or sleep, with the addition of a peculiar susceptibility to suggestions of the hypnotizer...
...meeting of the Christian Association last night, Professor W. W. Goodwin attracted an unusually large audience. He took his subject from the seventeenth chapter of Acts and after reading a freer translation of this than is found in the Bible, spoke very interestingly of St. Paul's discourse in the Areopagus at Athens...
Vesper Service yesterday was conducted by Rev. George A. Gordon, who spoke of the responsibilities of young men to society. Everything, said he, is brought into the presence of moral responsibility, wealth, character, genius, and youth. Youth cannot take upon itself the responsibilities of wealth or of genius, but is responsible for its own powers, to perform what is befitting...
After the address Mr. Field spoke very strongly in favor of the foundations of a club for the poor in Boston in connection with the St. Pauls Society. The English Universities have founded such clubs and have had great success. The support of such a club would probably cost...