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...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...
...second leading idea was the transmigration of souls. The Hindoos were lead by the natural scenery and life around to ask how animals learned to live unless by former experience. Mr. Arnold then related an anecdote of a child who fell and dropped some milk. The mother running to the child attributed the fall not to the carelessness of the child but to some mischief the child had done in its previous existence. The doctrines of this religion penetrates even to the daily life, that is in regard to marriages. Of the two hundred millions of people, there...
...showing would hardly have been so poor had she not been unfortunate. In the bicycle race her man took a header in the last lap, in the mile run her leading man was taken ill and had to be carried off, and in the 220-yards dash, Ellis fell within six feet of the finish with the Andover man just abreast...
...Haverford went to the bat first, and by steady play piled up 85 runs, Muir leading with 19. Sharper fielding by Harvard would have kept the score lower. Brown and Garrett led off in Harvard's first innings. and made 25 runs in quick succession before the first wicket fell. After that the side was retired rapidly by the puzzling balls of Martin and Baily. The game was stopped by rain after Haverford had begun a second innings, in which they were being quickly disposed of. The chances seemed to be in favor of a considerable improvement in Harvard...
...prosperous beginning was now made in the field, when 3 good wickets fell for 12 runs; but H. I. Brown and Griscom made a long stand, carrying the total up to 48 before the former was well caught by Lee. Wickets now fell slowly, but regularly, the last man, Patterson, being disposed of just as 130 was posted. Griscom's 51 was a first class performance. Brown had the best bowling average. The total (130) was by no means a high one, and it might have been considerably reduced by quicker work in the field...