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...thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form the corner stone of the humanities, they fulfill their highest function in affording their, devotes the noble opportunity of repudiating the utilitarian theory of education
...Regimental Committee, as such, does not exercise command or the power of discipline, which are directly entrusted to the Regimental Commander, and its action is limited in this respect to an advisory function...
...only 140 men have applied for invitations; so it is urged that every man who can possibly do so mail his application at once. It is hoped that this year's function will be even more attractive and successful than the Junior Dances of previous years...
...attract a larger number of contestants from other colleges than last winter, although no definite acceptances of the Outing Club's invitations have been given out as yet. From the social point of view the club officers expect to profit by the greatly increased interest in the winter function by perfecting their arrangements for the various events...
...there is a second function of the minister less spectacular but no less precious than that of preaching. As a moral and spiritual leader he is also set to be the personal friend of the men and women and children in his parish, to exercise, with a sort of affectionate disinterestedness, the functions of guide and counsellor in their individual lives. It is this portion of his work which gives him so wide and inclusive a contact with his generation. And it tends to make him what all great ministers have been, a supreme humanist; a man, that...