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...other members of the Archaeological Society were given a reception at the Bishops' Home on Lafayette Place, New York, recently. The gathering was principally for the purpose of discussing methods for supporting the school at Athens, and excating the ancient relics of Delphi, Greece. Professors Norton, Goodwin and Sloan spoke. They said about $150,000 was needed. A committee consisting of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Samuel Sloan, Jesse Seligman and Henry G. Marquand were appointed to receive subscriptions...
...Shoemaker, '89, then spoke for the affirmative. The question before us is one of extreme dignity, said the speaker, and should not be considered merely in the light of state law; but it is a question of the disunion of families, and therefore should be regarded of the highest import to the rulers of our country. Like the tariff, it is bound to become a national question in spite of our efforts to the contrary. The speaker then went on to show the impracticability of several methods of changing the law, and finally ended by discussing the advantages of constitutional...
...Oxnard spoke next for the negative. When we make a law a part of our national constitution it becomes solidified there, and is not easily ejected. This question of divorce is one of the experimented sciences, and the safest place for its laws at present is in the state government, which is more easily changed. There is an advantage in state divorce laws, which is that each state sees, and avoids the errors of other state laws, and in this way, aids in obtaining perfectness...
...good-sized audience attended the vesper service at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The congregation read responsively the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody offered prayer. The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York, preached a short sermon, basing his remarks on the words which Jesus spoke first to the Pharisees and then to his disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher...
...senior class dinner took place last night at the Parker House. Although the attendance was not so large as at the junior class dinner last year, still about one hundred members of the class were present. Mr. Trafford, as class president, spoke briefly on the past history of Eighty-nine, and then introduced Mr. Darling, the orator of the evening. The latter reviewed the social, intellectual and religious activity of Eighty-nine's college career. After him, Mr. Hunneman read a poem, one of the most attractive incidents of the evening, fully of witty sallies on the prominent members...