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...Nearly two hundred years have passed since I was bell-ringer at this college, and many things have changed; but prayers, the evidence of my guilt, exist. I was almost a part of the college; I had taken my place when a boy and grown old in it. I loved the grounds, the building, most of all I loved my bell, and my greatest pleasure was in ringing it. Twice in the early morning, when the sun was rising, often through the day, and twice at evening, I delighted to send that pleasant sound out over the fields. When...
...grown-up boys, who in the days gone...
...reputation of our foot-ball eleven has grown to such an extent in the past two years that on Monday they will be called upon to face adversaries whose very coming is an honor to us. The Canadian "team" will be much stronger than the one we were fortunate enough to defeat last fall, and we cannot but look upon our chance for victory now as extremely doubtful. Whatever may be the result of the game, we have an opportunity of repaying, to some extent, the hospitality we have received in our visits to Montreal, and which has often been...
...questions which this controversy has raised are questions of opinion in regard to the relative merits of Mr. Emerson's earlier and later works. We can only say of Mr. Emerson, in the words of the contributor to our last number, that he is "a man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, . . . . whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever." When we have said this we have said all that is becoming of us, considering our relative positions...
...respect and kindness. To my eyes there is no more noble and venerable sight than an honest, earnest lover and benefactor of his race, the last years of whose earthly career are soothed and sustained by the hearty love and veneration of his fellow-beings. A man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, is a hero whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever. Such a man, in the opinion of his countrymen, is Ralph Waldo Emerson...