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...Bates, '92, was appointed president, pro tem., and H. A Bull, '95, secretary. The subject chosen was: Resolved, That the Bland free silver coinage bill should pass. The speeches were limited to five minutes, though many of the men spoke several times. The debate was lively, and, most of the time, interesting, though toward the end it tended toward becoming only a squabble between a few of the disputants. The following men spoke: Cameron '92, Cockrell '95, Wolff '92, Keep, L. S., Thwaits '94, Newman '95, Beckwith '94, Beckwith '94, Lecky '95, Vrooman '95, Clapp '95, Nichols '93, Huntington...
...Roots Gr., spoke next and related some of the facts about China. There are now but 1400 missionaries in the country which contains the largest population in the world. This is at the rate of one for every 250,000 people. To realize what this means let one imagine the state of things if there were only two ministers in all Boston...
...Muzzey '93, followed and spoke chiefly of the condition in India. There are but 1500 Christian workers in the whole country and the proportion is one to about 320,000 natives...
When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured...
...lecture yesterday, Professor Goodale spoke on the Illustrations of the Method, drawn from the phenomena of winter vegetation. One of the most profitable as well as one of the most interesting illustrations is found in buds; examining them with respect to their position on the stem and to their internal structure. Then the mechanical relations of branches, their position, and direction; the conditions and phenomena of germination as presented by seeds and seedlings; the examination of bulbs, corms, tubers, and cuttings are interesting subjects of study for the winter months...