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...hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict with none of our other sports. Indeed, it might be made a valuable auxiliary to them as a form of winter training. Many a man does not go to the gymnasium, because he finds it dull work to pull at the chest weights, and many another, who does go, would gladly participate in some out door sport which would give him enough exercise to keep him warm and be sufficiently exciting to give him an interest. Hockey is just what such a man wants...
...Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This experience comes to every...
...Advancement of Medicine by Research, to an audience filling the small hall in the Divinity building. His lecture was a plea in behalf of research by means of experiments on animals. He spoke of pain being a subjective sensation and relative in value. In animals which are dull in sensibility compared with man the sensation of pain is comparatively less. Many of the actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question is whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit...
...shooting was very difficult because of the driving snow and dull light, which made it almost impossible to see the balls, and more especially the pigeons, when sprung from the traps...
...order that members may be able better to know what is desired of them, I have written a brief, imaginary life, which is necessarily dull and uninteresting because of its unreality. In general, members are requested to write their genealogy some what in detail, telling all of their relatives that may have been famous, their father's business, mother's maiden name, and the residence of both. Next, stating your birth-place, you are invited to chronicle all precocious traits of childhood; your early school days; place of preparing for college, and all honors received at entrance. Mention the name...