Items of Interest December 9, 1905 Issue

Items of Interest

Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in London in the time-honored manner by a reunion of leading Americans at a banquet in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Cecil.

Thanksgiving Day was observed for the first time in the Church of Oxford University. The sermon was preached by Rev. G. H. S. Walpole, vicar of Lambeth, who formerly was a professor in the Union Theological Seminary at New York. Dr. William Osler, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and now regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, presided at the dinner of the American Club of Oxford.

Three hundred Americans celebrated the day by a banquet at the Kaiserhof, Berlin. Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody, of Harvard University, who is at Berlin as the delegate lecturer of American Colleges, made the principal address.

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