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...doubt but that our stand will be severely criticised, but it will remain firm and will in the end command respect. We hope that the action of the Cambridge authorities will prove a blessing in disguise, and that, after things have cooled down for a year, we shall again play Harvard, and a new era of good feeling in athletics will come about between the two universities...
...into rhyme or even into print, for there is nothing extraordinary in it either in point of conception or treatment. Indeed in regard to the latter, one is amused to find now and then the rhyme lapsing into prose. It is hardly possible to predict that the rhyme will command any special interest from students to whom it must be supposed it is meant to appeal...
...profitable in operation. - (a) More economical. - (1) No wear and tear on tracks from, - (x) Crossing of teams. - (y) Constant stops. - (2) Require no clearing in winter. - (3) (3) Quicker trips. - (4) No accidents from crossing tracks. - (b) More commodious. - (1) Four tracks in busiest part. - (c) Will command a rental sufficient to pay interest on debt incurred, and pay debt at maturity...
...absent. The point of honor involved in this intentional deception is sufficiently obvious; but in the College today it seems to escape the attention of many who pass in the eyes of themselves and of their fellows for strictly honorable men. More than this, there are men whose characters command respect, who are yet not ready to admit that they do anything dishonorable by occasionally deceiving the office as to their whereabouts. If they did so as a regular thing, their consciences would be troubled, but for just once or twice when a cut would not appear well in their...
...much questioning often leads to pessimism which is naturally a religious disease. But no man who reflects can help believing that there is a spirit in things which commands reverence and if there be such a divine spirit, nature can not be its revelation to man, because visible nature is too indifferent to command our worship. We look then to a greater universe of which nature is only a part. Of this universe man's religious faith is only the scaffolding, and so must religion involve the idea that in some way one must die to this world before...