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...exclusive study for a profession, with the majority of students, begins immediately on the end of the academic course. Time necessary for acquiring much general information being thus limited, it is desirable to find the means of obtaining clear yet condensed views and recent opinions on such subjects as we are unable to bring into the list of our electives...
...control of the club who take no interest in it at all, but were simply chosen on the spur of the moment; and the second is open to the objection that the club might get into the hands of a clique, who, instead of forming a chess-club, might end by practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind...
...thought that such a shapeless end...
...expiration of a stated time, six young gentlemen should be selected from each division. Tables should be provided for them on the platform at the end of the hall, and at stated intervals they should compete for prizes, - such as a napkin-ring, a stop watch, and a handsome case-knife, - to be provided by general subscription. The committee should select judges and a referee...
...here the author justifies a true use of the word "teleology," opposing an utter denial of final causes, as he has already censured those who regard everything merely as an end. Both views are true when taken together; the relation of one part of the universe to another is that of the parts of a great painting which are true in themselves, but lack something unless united. Upon this view rests the belief in the "ideal element which is the life of all things," and which, "taking up into itself all the results of our analysis, assumes a grandeur...