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...escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give it all a low meaning. Possible enough to see in it nothing but the casting of restraint after restraint, in order that at last all traces of connection with the supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call...
...continue to astound men. The dreams are what to the lower nature seem unreal, - but the things which are seen are temporal and the things which are unseen are permanent. As to nations, so to individuals, visions arise of duty, of nobleness. And although such a vision will often disappear, still, having once shined upon our inward eyes, its inspiration remains after its rays are extinguished. A helmsman during a temporary lifting of the fog sees a light upon the coast; once seen, the fog may again fall over it and hide it from his sight; enough, he has seen...
...attention has been called recently to the frequency with which the posters announcing the different base-ball games disappear from the college yard. This was especially noticeable with regard to the Harvard-Yale freshman game, but the practice of "ragging" 'varsity signs among the students at large is just as rife. The rapidity with which they disappear from the bulletin boards in University and in Memorial is truly amazing. The different athletic teams rely principally upon the posters for the publication of their games, and undergraduates ought to remember that a sign which goes no one knows where in five...
Abstraction of personal property, i. e. stealing, is the latest and ever recurring complaint. Hats, umbrellas and books, all disappear in a most sudden and mysterious manner. Those who take other people's property, whether from absent-mindedness or not, seem to have no regard for time or place. Memorial Hall and the gymnasium suffer alike. But to speak seriously, things are in a bad condition when a man cannot leave his hat on a hook in the gymnasium and find it again after exercising. Affairs are just the same at Memorial. Books and umbrellas disappear as rapidly there. Moreover...
...applied here too; for it is still necessary, and we cannot fairly distinguish, in marks, between different parts of the same subject, or between different subjects. But, - and this is a most important consideration, - as Harvard grows and takes on a more university character, written examinations tend steadily to disappear. For this means of testing is only suited to the technical, elementary, or detailed parts of our studies; and the courses of Harvard are gradually losing these characteristics, and acquiring the broad, university aspect which befits...