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...fear for his success in life. A man's religious views enter into his daily work and determine, to a considerable degree, his character. Before all, a man must be true to God, and his earthly affairs will arrange themselves in order; just as a ship whose position is correct in regard to the sun, will assume a position correct as regards the stars, also...
...which, in the hurry of note-taking, were misinterpreted by our first correspondent. These mistakes were printed in our first article, where upon our second correspondent, who, it would seem, is conversant in scientific affairs, sent us a long communication in regard to the misstatements of his predecessor. These corrections were perfectly correct and justifiable, but there is a question about the propriety of his intimating that the lecturer was "sadly in error." The latter is thus brought into a controversy in which he takes no interest and which is wholly out of his province The remarks which he made...
...higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games so impressed the correct form of the nude figure upon the artist that he was gradually induced to abandon conventional statues of the gods and fashion the more perfect ones of athletes. Then, too, the training of many men had the effect of furnishing a large number of good models. It is almost impossible...
This prophesy was happily correct, though it was made in much the same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers, at the end of the fourth inning." It was the "never say die" of Barnaby Rudge's raven over again...
...believe that our victories have been due to your introduction and enforcement of correct principles of rowing, and we wish to impress upon graduates the faithful adherence to those principles. Nor is the success of the 'Cook Stroke' to be measured by victories alone. You have aroused throughout the university a general interest in oarsmanship, the goods results of which are seen in the constantly increasing number of students who resort to this mode of exercise." To which Capt. Cook replies: "It must be true, indeed, that the enforcement of correct principles of rowing has had much to do with...