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...Ingersoll lecture for this year was delivered last night by the Rev. Charles F. Dole D.D., '68, of the First Congregational Church, Jamaica Plain, who spoke on "The Hope of Immortality and Our Reasons for It." After acknowledging the wide-spread skepticism of the present day, and speaking of that class of people whose desire to believe prevents them from entering the discussion at all, Dr. Dole went on to discuss various arguments on this most perplexing of all subjects...
...hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People." The lecturer is the only North American Indian giving lectures and is the ablest living exponent of Sioux life and character...
...Public Lecture Course just announced for the current year 1906-07 includes many eminent men. The series will consist of twenty-five lectures covering a wide range of topics on literature, art, music, drama and science...
...much like those of basketball except that the kind of goals and the method of scoring is essentially different, and intended to develop a more interesting game. The ball, which is the same as the one used in basketball, must be thrown or kicked through a goal six feet wide by seven and a half feet high and defended by two goal keepers. A goal thrown from the centre square will count three points, a goal thrown from the side squares two, and one kicked from the side squares will score...
Howard Adams Carson, "Engineer of the metropolitan sewerage system and of the Boston rapid transit tunnels, successful pioneering works of high local value and wide influence in other communities...