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...have been elected by the class but are not acceptable to the senior editors. The class has been asked to reconsider its action but refuses to do so, claiming that it has elected men who represent the best literary ability of the class. As both sides appear firm it is doubtful how the affair will...
...things must beat the same time beauty." To quote a little more from Mr. Arnold: "Sweetness and light evidently have to do with the bent or side in humanity which we call Hellenic. Greek intelligence has obviously for its essence the instinct for what Plato calls the true, firm, intelligible, law of things; the law of light, of seeing things as they are. Even in the natural sciences, where the Greeks had not time and means adequately to apply this instinct, and where we have gone a great deal further than they did, it is this instinct which...
...sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with friends connected with the physical and mathematical sciences, and I have found them almost without exception firm in the same conviction." The main point is very emphatically touched upon by the university faculty in their report of 1869. "In regard to the natural sciences, the most mutable of our chemists and physicists, as well as the representatives of the other departments, agree that the students from the Gymnasia...
...seems as if the Athletic Association might take the initiative, and organize companies for practice with the apparatus, for some one must be first in a movement like this, and an organization so powerful as the H. A. A. would be able to put the project on a firm footing at once...
...material at hand, and in more systematic and scientific coaching. Lacrosse seems to have fallen behind as a university sport and we would warn all who have the interest of the game at heart that unless they improve the present time, the opportunity for establishing the game on a firm footing here will be gone. Bicycling has been energetically advanced in the college, and we can only urge its forwarders to go on as they have begun...