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...will probably remain with the squad until those to go on the Easter trip are selected. This includes those trying for battery positions. As a whole the men are altogether too slow and do not seem to be able to judge the ball accurately, fumbling being a common fault. This weakness is especially characteristic of the candidates for infield positions, particularly catcher and shortstop, which will be hard to fill acceptably. As yet no one has been found who could be depended upon at either of these places. Trudeau, pitcher on last year's nine, can be relied upon...
...always a fault in the work of Moliere, and of the school to which he was trained, that after the characters and the main theme of the play were worked out, the piece was then brought to a close by the first device which occurred to the mind of the playwright, such as the finding of a letter or of a long lost relative. Little regard was paid to the logical outcome of characters or situations; still less to poetic justice. In this point Fielding really improved his model, according to modern notions...
...owing to some infirmity, can not work. The first, if he is physically and mentally able to find work but still refuses, merits little sympathy or consideration and should be left to suffer. With the second class it is different. He may have been incapacitated for work through no fault...
...majority is not likely to be given up. Much can be said for a single chamber instead of two, but even in a smaller city than ours, measures need most thorough discussion and mature deliberation and the opinion of one house is much more likely to be at fault than that...
This is far different from bigotry. Liberality permits us to be men of the firmest convictions, fearless of all that is fault. It does not give us a scorn for other creeds, but brings us confidence in our own and makes the truth more evident. Let the world know the truth. Let the church be known, and the beauty of her features will make every man do her reverence...