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...Harvard College Base Ball Club's receipts for 1892 aggregated $20,539. This fund will materially aid Harvard's athletics for 1893, there being a good balance at command despite an expense account of over $18,000. The question is, what made the expenditures so large? Cyclone pitchers and their hard-worked catchers doubtless came high in the college arena...
When turned sixty, with spirit broken and means wasted, Defoe gave evidence of his wonderful energy by writing his "Robinson Crusoe" In it is displayed his absolute command of the carpentry of nature, - his power of inventing circumstantial details which have an overwhelming sense of reality about them. His works have little humor about them, and lack sparkle, but they have always simplicity, sympathy, and this unquestionable air of truth...
...fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard, the character of the debates must be such as to command respect. To do this the standard of the Union needed to be raised; not only that but the Union needed thorough reorganization. We would gladly see the whole university take an active interest in debating and public speaking. But the interest cannot be effectively aroused merely by increasing membership with...
There come times in the lives of all classes and races of men when they hear with perfect distinctness, the command "be ye perfect," It comes in the time of solitude when men are apt to be thinking of self and urges them to new endeavor. Moreover men are perfectly conscious that until they try to be better they have neglected the first essential to the truest type of life. Though the command is easy to hear it is often very difficult to obey. The strength of the passions is constantly at work to keep a man where...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...