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Polycritus made a figure of rather a short square pattern which became the canon used on the coins and vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous...
...reception will be given at the President's house on Monday evening. The faculties of the university will assist with a simultaneous reception in Hemenway gymnasium, at the same hour on Monday evening. Among those present yesterday afternoon were President Gilman of John S. Hopkins Prof. Fisher of Yale, Canon Creighton of Cambridge, England, and Prof. Parker also of Cambridge...
...Canon Creighton also presented letters of greeting to Harvard from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the college from which John Harvard received his degrees...
...equivalent to destroying the chapel service altogether. Even men like Dr. Brooks and Dr. McKenzie hesitated a long while before taking the step which was sure to come some day. The grand service on Sunday night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal...
...into Coventry" by his friends. But very few cases have occurred in a very long time, but those few have afforded stern and sad lessons in lives blighted by this unmanly dishonesty at college, and the social condemnation with which it was visited. One of the most successful of Canon Farrar's works - a novel that rivalled "Tom Brown at Oxford" - drew its interest and power from one of those cases, and did much to confirm the manly, public opinion of the students of Cambridge on the subject...