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...would be easy to name many other benefits which flow from this uniforming of the crew, but they must be apparent to all who give the subject any attention; so I shall cut short this letter, which, I fear, has already overstepped the limits of the space which can be spared it in your columns...
...downtrodden, foot ball abolished,- at such a time, what a relief to find one body of men so alive to the interests of the hour ! Yet stay. Can it be that this unexpected, and reckless waste of money is prompted by the expectation of the numerous sheckels which will flow into the strong box of the association this morning, as the members line up to pay an additional fifty cents for their tickets over the price which was in vogue last year. Truly generosity is not invariably caused by adversity...
...marvellous growth and awakening of the college consequent upon the transfer of the privilege and responsibility of shaping its policy from the legislature to the alumni, and their wise exercise of this power, has inspired its friends, within and without, with new interest and confidence, and hence the continuous flow of gifts, great and small, from rich and poor, into its treasury. Of course, we must not and do not forget the important agency of our president, elected three years after the new organization,-who, by the by, never would have been elected our president by the old board...
...word freedom has many meanings. When who say that a stream is not free to flow because it is frozen, we do not speak of the same freedom as when we say that a Negro is not free to vote because he is intimidated. For the Negro may still vote if he has cour-age enough to run the risk; but the frozen stream cannot possibly flow. Besides, a stream is not free to flow except when it is actually flowing, but a man may be free to vote and yet never cast his ballot. Thus by liberty we mean...
...article commenting on the relation of public education to the civil service, the Nation says: "It seems to flow naturally from all this that the state should encourage and stimulate popular education by using places in public service to reward it. In Germany, where great value-some think inordinate value-has long been attached to the higher education, all but the lowest places in the civil service are reserved inexorably for graduates of the universities or gymnasia. In England, in 1870, the establishment of common schools, supported by general taxation, was accompanied by the throwing open of the civil...