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...closing, he asked the next speaker on the affirmative to find some flaw in the workings of the system proposed by the negative and to show also some way in which the convertible legal tenders differ from specie, except that they are more convenient. "Unless he does this," asked Warren, "how can he prove that all the legal tender notes should be retired...
...University. If the Junior class supports the committee in a whole-hearted way the dinner will be a most successful one, and in after years will be one of the pleasantest of college memories. This is almost the only occasion during the four years course when the different sorts of men in a class can be brought together and a sympathetic understanding established among them. There has been a spirit of good fellowship at the Junior dinner in the past that is seldom attained in such a large gathering of men, many of whose interests differ widely. The genuine...
...charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes 'athletics' simply a pastime...
...Rugby and Association football teams. They usually award a "full blue" to the members of the five teams they represent; and in addition to the chief representative in court tennis and rackets. On the athletic team, however, the "second strings" get only a "half blue." This differs from a "full blue" in that the sweater has no blue trimming on the neck and sleeves and is without the emblem of the club on the breast, while the blazer and cap are striped with white. Members of the cross country team, the bicycle team, the (field) hockey team and perhaps some...
...themselves. It is not a philosophical or a political question such as the Pharisees were continually propounding. It is a question of personal allegiance to Christ and His Church, and the answer to it determines whether or not a man is a Christian. Christ's apostles and disciples may differ on minor points, but they are all agreed on this main point. The answer to this great question will determine all subsidiary questions for us, and yet few have really put the vital question to themselves...