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Commercially, no better example of the effect of geological conditions can be seen, than the case of New York. A commercial centre is always at the junction of two or more lines of transportation. New York has not only the Hudson with its tributaries, and the railroads which follow the rivers, but also a good egress to the sea. In former geological ages the Hudson was merely a river valley. Now, however, by the tipping of the land through which it flowed, the Hudson has become the deep sea way, which has made New York the greatest commercial centre...
...regards transportation, not only ships but all other methods of conveyance follow the courses allowed them by the geological formations which surround them. This is especially well illustrated by the frequency with which the railroads follow the course of the streams. And as the settlement and growth of a country depends to a great extent on transportation, so transportation depends entirely on the geological features of the country...
...Harvard the negative. The principal speeches will be twelve minutes in length. Two speakers from each side will have six minutes each in rebuttal. The debate will be opened in the affirmative by W. H. Butler of Princeton. C. A. Duniway will speak first for Harvard. He will be followed by J.W. Park in the affirmative. W. E. Hutton will speak second for Harvard. Then will follow H. E. White for Princeton and F. Dobyns for Harvard. In rebuttal, J. W. Park, F. Dobyns, H. E. White, and C. A. Duniway will speak in the order named...
...shall be very glad at some time in the near future to follow the suggestion of "Ninety-five" and reprint Professor Taussig's article on football, which appeared in the last number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine...
Christ praised the centurion because it was this soldierly quality that he wanted his disciples to have - the power to obey, and growing out of that, the power to command. We need to follow the centurion's example today. The scholar has first to learn to obey, to conform to rigid discipline, before he reaches the point where he is qualified to choose his own course of study. Obedience is the first lesson which the business man has to learn. In the moral world, training and discipline are absolutely necessary to the man who would withstand sudden temptation. He must...