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...Harvard against Yale has first claim on the attention of the debaters in the University. It is all-important that this intercollegiate debate should be made as fine as possible, especially at a time when athletic competition is rather running away with us and when a good many people, absurd as it may seem, are actually judging institutions by their ability to play football. Something must be done, and done soon, to turn some of the enthusiasm which now holds almost exclusively to athletic contests. Though oratory and argument cannot be practiced on an open field every afternoon before grand...
...during the afternoon. As we said yesterday this very variety of events will probably interfere with the complete success of any one of them. It will do no good to urge men to go to the University game in preference to the football contests; and vice vesa it is absurd to advise men to cling to their class feeling and neglect the University games. Even were it reasonable to do either one of these things we cannot from our position, side with one contest to the exclusion of the other. This combination of events on one day is unfortunate...
Looking at this text practically and logically it seems absurd, for it violates the very first principle of logic. But when we come to spiritual facts, we cannot measure them by physical laws. The law of the Conservation of Energy does not apply with regard to honor and fidelity and patriotism. Neither does anything that lives or grows obey this inflexible law. The physiologist's first principle is that the body dies in decaying partially at every instant. At every stage of its growth every organism not only is, but is passing away from what is. Moreover, nothing can exist...
...piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas...
...present; we need lecture halls with better accommodations for such large courses. Doubtless there are other and more important demands to be answered - the new library and reading room, even better accommodations for the officers of the University, and, above all, more dormitories, - for it is a little absurd to offer students increased facilities for work till we have more places to house them in, - but there is a great need here for a new laboratory building...