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...better or a wider clientele than Mr. Whitney among the amateur sportsmen of the college, athletic clubs, and the better element of sportsmen generally. His experience, his training, and his associations have all tended to make him thoroughly competent, and his weekly comments and criticisms will be sure to command attention. "What Whitney says" has so often helped the perplexed captain of a team, or settled the final standing of a doubtful amateur, that what he will have to say in the Weekly will carry weight with it, and will be looked for with keen interest...
...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...
...these games, would lead one to think that these schools had authoritative permission to do so. Now there cannot be the slightest doubt under the existing circumstances, that they ought not to have this permission; if they do not have it, some one in authority ought to command them to play elsewhere and leave Norton's field to those for whom it was intended...
...keenly felt signifies that the Library is fulfilling, though under difficulties, its all important function; but as was stated in the President's Report for 1887-8, it is a need which the President and Fellows are quite unable to satisfy with any resources now at their command...