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...time of Dante's wonderful journey through the spiritual realms was in the year 1300. On an afternoon in April he found himself wandering in a deep gloomy forest, not knowing how he had come there or where he was. His mind seemed weighed down with heaviness as if he had just awakened from a deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet...
...Salvini and Booth acted together in the Boston Theatre. The acting was simply marvelous, for both actors were influenced by the suppressed excitement and deep interest of the audience...
...only the Hudson with its tributaries, and the railroads which follow the rivers, but also a good egress to the sea. In former geological ages the Hudson was merely a river valley. Now, however, by the tipping of the land through which it flowed, the Hudson has become the deep sea way, which has made New York the greatest commercial centre in the United States...
Beside requiring us to pay attention to our physical well-being, Christianity enjoins upon us a broad and deep intellectual culture. The old idea was that the true faith could only be preserved by the suppression of free thought, but we find Christ Himself reasoning with men and asking them their opinions. In these days, as always, every seeker after truth is following Christ's teaching. Our colleges and universities have been founded by Christian men for the advancement of Christianity, and built up with Christian toil and sacrifice...
...news from Harvard has been received with unusual interest at Yale during the past week. Deep regret is felt here at the radical action of the Harvard Faculty in reference to football - not only because of its probable prevention of the annual Springfield game, but because college athletics in general is injured by the official credence given by a university of Harvard's prominence to the misrepresentations and unjust attacks of the opponents of football during the past season. The attitude of the Yale Faculty will undoubtedly continue to be one of non-interference - a policy bred of confidence...