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...events, and the rules and restrictions for the events shall be the same as those adopted from year to year by the I. C. A. A. A. A. except as hereinafter specified...
Twenty-eight foreign countries and every state and territory except three are represented at the University of Pennsylvania...
...this can only be if we read such books as make us think, and read them in such a way as helps them to do so, that is, by endeavoring to judge them, and thus to make them an exercise, rather than a relaxation of the mind. Desultory reading, except as conscious pastime, hebetates the brain and slackens the bow-string of Will. It communicates as little intelli...
...things of the past. We take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic Association officials do, will make such a meeting an entire success...
...Howard N. Brown of Brookline, preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "That which thou sowest it is not quickened, except it die," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience...