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...Endicott Peabody, following Professor Moore, spoke briefly on the words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...
...indifference shown by some to downright dishonesty in preparing college work and in explaining absence from lectures. As to the latter, "able-bodied youths are afflicted with diseases that admit all pleasures and forbid all duties." . . . College ideals are for the most part high, however, and we should not forget "that, when all is said, our undergraduates themselves are constantly purifying and uplifting college honor...
...money in our elections and in our representative bodies. . . . There can be no reverence for law where laws and law makers are bought with money, and I fear we are rapidly destroying the possibility of such reverence in the minds of our countrymen. We ought never to forget that in democratic governments the black flag of corruption is apt to be followed by the rd flag of anarchy." The article closes with expression of confidence in the ultimate awakening of the nation's conscience to higher ideals...
...lack of appreciation of the severity of the coming contest, which tends almost towards over-confidence. If this dangerous spirit is allowed to develop in the University, it is almost sure to extend itself to the members of the team. Two facts the undergraduates seem to forget. In the first place, against the teams played by both Universities, Yale has in every case, except against the Indians, made a larger score than Harvard. Secondly, in the last game with Princeton. Yale showed herself capable of playing a high class game. The undergraduates should remember that overconfidence never wins a game...
...honor the dead Queen, but from the witness of her life that "it is possible to live nobly, even in a palace." Because she was free from worldliness in the greatest of world-centres; because she held simple faith and love above all that the world could give, we forget the monarch we have lost, and remember only the woman and the friend...