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...members of the University who are fond of active exercise in the open air and who are prevented in one way or another from playing football, have a chance this evening to ally themselves with the movement which is being made in favor of the game of lacrosse...
...early life, St. Francis was very fond of dress and pleasure, but he was ever generous, kind to the poor and pure, and in these traits can be seen the ruling characteristics of his after life. He had some ambition for military fame, but on becoming ill after one campaign in which he took part, a more serious conception of life took possession of him. Soon after, when he was on the way to join in another war, a voice from heaven seemed to call upon him to renounce his present mode of life and devote himself to the service...
...here to the student. Lowell, Longfellow, and many others have gone off into the woods or fields, and found there an avocation in the study of nature. Then Sunday is a day when one can read with pleasure and profit the history of the Christian church, or, if not fond of literature, there are art and music. A student should employ his Sundays in physical refreshment, intellectual enlargement, and acquaintance with religion...
Proportion is the united relation of the several parts of a building. It is a refined sense of what looks well. Architects are altogether too fond of using complicated formulas in proportion, when simple rules are just as useful and all that is really necessary...
...Harvard Union for finally securing the promise of a lecture by Mr. Irving. Mr. Irving's decision will be looked upon with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about...