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...Davis, '93, was elected senior vice-president; and D. A. Center, Gr., and A. S. Hayes, '91, to regular membership. G. T. Page, '92 then spoke on Electric railways, comparing the different kinds of motors and ways of carrying currents for locomotion. The club numbers about fifty; it expects to hold public lectures during the year addressed by eminent authorities...
...conference meeting last night Professor Toy spoke on The Old Testament in the light of other Semitic Literature. The Old Testament, said Professor Toy, is the only remainder of the old Hebrew literature; it is the most rounded and complete of all ancient Semitic literature. Beginning with the organization of Hebrew tribes, when Saul became king, it was brought out a century later in literary shape. The old Semitic literature has a very small compass. Much of the little that there was has been lost, and many of the tribes had none. There was a regular order of production...
...second College Conference meeting last night, Mr. G. L. Kittredge of the English department spoke on the Literary Aspect of the English Bible. The English Bible, said Mr. Kittredge, did not come suddenly, but it is a growth; it grew by a series of revisions. In the Anglo-Saxon times large parts of the Bible were translated into the three dialects that the language was divided into in England. Wickliffe, who made the first translation in what may be called modern times, translated into the Midland dialect, the dialect of Chaucer. Others helped him in the task, but he probably...
...followed by J. H. Morse, L. 8., who spoke in behalf of Captain Cumnock who was not able to be present. He said that the men in Ninety-four must show enough enthusiasm to put a winng team in the field to follow the example set by every freshman eleven since'86 in defeating Yale...
...Goldthwaite '91, also spoke, calling attention to the fact that not enough men went out to form two freshman elevens...