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...Lange, of Norway, secretary-general of the Interparliamentary Union, delivered a lecture on "The Interparliamentary Union and its Task in the Organization of the World," in Emerson Hall last evening...
...topic Mr. Woods took "Vocation: Democracy in the Main Action of Life." Real vocation, he said, was to know the moral meaning of the task taken up, whatever that task might be. He showed that the prevalent idea of the meaning of work as a means of controlling the greatest share of material products was fast giving way to the consideration of work and especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects...
...evidence because Armand has destroyed all extant examples of his handwriting. Armand loves the ladies, so the minister sets a score of them to cajole him into writing a letter, but all their wiles are in vain, till suddenly the minister's niece appears. She agrees to try the task, but is not told why, hence she innocently lures him to his social ruin. In the last act he is enlightened as to her ignorance of his crime, and pardoned by the emperor, folds her to his heart...
Assistant Professor R. T. Fisher '98, of the Department of Forestry, spoke before the Forestry Club last night on "Reminiscences of Field Work in the Forest Service." In 1899 Professor Fisher was commissioned to do some exploration work in the forests of Washington. The task consisted in making a trail into sparsely settled country which was supposed to have timber-land suitable for a national forest, climbing all the mountains that offered points of advantage for making rough maps of the surrounding territory, and plotting out the general topography on a township...
...existence, he would not have suspected his wife's fidelity: but he could not have known it without discovering that the man was a murderer,--and this, it is carefully explained, would have destroyed his home. The detective may strike some of us as naive; but he simplifies the task of exposition, and the audience is left in no doubt as to the state of affairs when he walks out of the play promising his assistance to the distressed wife. The lesson of the play is that there can be no perfect love without trust; the love of wife...