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...second place, there is a plan of the course, showing what course to elect, in what year to take it, by whom it is taught, and, most important of all, of what the course consists. For this students ought to feel thankful to Professors Shaler and Whitney, by whom this plan has been adopted. As to the quality of the instruction, or rather of the lectures, in geology, there is no need of a word of commendation...
...representative oarsmen measure their strength and skill with those of our New Haven contemporaries. The same principle applies, as well, to base ball and football. The Yale games are always watched with much more eagerness than any others which our teams play. In the same way we cannot but feel that an annual series of athletic sports with Yale would spur our athletes on to their best endeavors, and occasion a great improvement in the College records, not to speak of planting the seeds of a lasting enthusiasm in Athletics at Harvard by thus making the sports a matter...
...collectively that 'temperance is evidently fitting, and therefore a duty,' and that it is 'better than abstinence, unless there be specific reasons for abstinence.' " An attempt to wrest language as clear as this to an argument in favor of moderate drinking is argumentative hypocrisy. We speak plainly, because we feel that Dr. Peabody has been grossly insulted by his opponents; one of them going so far as to declare him "a corrupter of morals and unfit for his place." These are groundless accusations, and their groundlessness was evident even to the accuser. In other words, Dr. Miner and his friends...
...hour passed. Sundry "braces" at Carl's had made me feel more like meeting my Uncle Luther. I entered the room quietly to see what the old cove was about. By thunder, he was still looking at the pictures! When he saw me, the picture dropped, and I fancied I saw a blush his cheek. "Nathaniel," - the storm was coming; but as I began to feel as if I did n't care whether school kept or not, I lit a cigarette (he abominates smoking) and sat on the table prepared to take it, - take it, - "Nathaniel," he repeated, "these...
...mask on yet, but his face was as impassive and immovable as though that had been covering it. I marked the axe also. As he saw my glance, he, too, looked down upon it, and patted it with some such pride as a father might feel in his fair-haired child. The axe was bright and gleaming, as though it had never been used; but I detected a small, dark-red spot on one side. He, too, saw it, and calmly rubbed it off with his sleeve...