Daily globe., 1883-08-10
AAHroMEDI sUMMER ASSEMBLY

Lectures on Botany by Professor Bessey,
on Revision by Professor Wright, and on
The African by e. T. W. Hammond, the
Famous Colored Writer-Programme for
To-day.
At the morning hour Professor Bessey
continued his lectures on Botany with
discussion of various kinds of moses.
Said the professor: We will pass over
many links in the scale of life
from our point of view of yesterday.
We then saw the beginnings of
organic life in the white protoplasmie
cell. We saw its growth and multiplica-
tion, by depression of green vegetable
matters in order to make starch for the
food of the plant. All vegetable growth is
| simply a more complex arrangement of
these units of life. have collected for to-
day some specimens of the simpler forms
of MOSES. You have noticed upon the
north side of trees vegetable growth which
nature induces for the protection of her
creatures. Under the microscope these
moses, which gather their sustenance from
the decayed matter of the bark,
are themselves tree-like in struc-
ture, having a distinct trunk and
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many trees bear upon them a microscopic
forest of vegetable life. From the richer
mould of the earth stronger and more
complex growth appear. The professor
here introduced various specimens which
he had collected about the grounds and
explained their structure and modes of
| life.
| The morning scientific lectures which
will continue throughout the entire assem-
bly, are both entertaining and instructive
and enthusiastic students with notebook
in hand, are storing up food for thought
Tor days to come.
At three o'clock in the afternoon
PROF. WRIGHT, OF BOSTON,
continued his delightful lecture on New
Testament Greek. 1t is impossible to give
synopsis of these remarkable talks.
Prof. Wright is tall and graceful in ap-
pearance, with rich and we'll moduIated
voice. and possesses vivacity and pic
turesq of style which invests his
subject with lively interest. He began
by referring to the power and uses of
words in general. A word is cheap but
the word is riches. Websters dictionary
is words, and so are Worcester's and Walk
er's and Johnson's, but Shakespeare
Milton and Ruskin and Longfellow, are the
words. Among all the peoples who have
ever lived, the Greeks are pre-eminent for
the exactness of their expression, the pic
| turesqueness of their modes of thought.
Other things being equal, the man who has
studied Greek will have most clearly before
his mind the mental conceptions with
J which he deals. To the classic Greek the
English language owes clearness and force
of statement. From the single word Iogos,
the English language has received 793
words. From the New Testa-
ment Greek, which is not a evolution
but district creation, the English is in
debted for noble cargoes of great thoughts
The lecture was interspersed and enlivened
with brilliant bon nots and entertaining
anecdotes. Numerous passages from the
New Testament were presented, and by
fresh and exact exegesis were made to
yield rare treasures of luminous
! truth.
The lecture being over the audience dis
persed to form numerous boating or fish
ing parties, and the beautiful lake was
soon enlivenened with gay companies, and
musical with splashing oars and merry
laughter.
In the evening E. S. W. Hammond, the
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on the past and future of the colored race.
The humorous and pathetic characteristics
of his people were abundantly manifest,
together with a rich and Imaginative
| genius and gift of oratory peculiarly his
OWE. He compared his people to the
| children of Israel, and their deliverance to
an obedience of the command, 'Let my
people GO" As to the future of the race
there are three possible solutions: Emf
grafton, extinction or isolation. As
to the first, Africa is too
far off. American isolation is
impracticable, hence the first method must
be abandoned.
AS to extinction, statistics reveal the fact
that that the colored people multiply far
more rapidly than the whites, hence if any
body is to become extinct, it will not be the
African. If" said the speaker, ''we may
believe the law of the survival of the
fittest'-here The audience saw and ap-
preclated the point, and the lecturer was
Interrupted by shouts of laughter. He
sketched the history of his people, claiming
that Africa was the seat
of great empire, and Ham
the father of heroes. He interiected a
poem in the peculiar meter and rythm of
his roll. Altogether, the effect was highly
unique and characteristic.
The famous iDonavan's Tennesseeans
sang one of the pathetic melodies of the
south, which was highly appreciated.
The Tennesseeans are to remain over
Sunday, and will give grand concert on
Saturday night, besides appearing at other
services.
The audiences are good and are
increasing daily, and the good
impression of Mahtomedi as resor
which was made in other meetings is
daily confirmed and increased.
The programme to-day consists of
meeting for worship at $50, led by DR..
Chaffee, a children's meeting at 9 conduct
ed by Mrs. E. Hitler, formsl class at 10, |
led by Henry Plant of Minneapolis, lee
lures at IL and 8 by Prof. Wright, of |
Boston, and the evening lecture by Prof |
Bessey with songs by the Tennesseeans.
The entertainments are all of the high |
est order, and instruction delightfully."- |
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