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...patrons, the facts with which I shall deal, will be the people and facts of the present age. What preparation will better fit me to meet the practical demands of to-day than a seven years' study of the politics, literature, and society of ancient foreign and half-civilized nations...
...half to the holy Church...
Perhaps, however, we may gain some consolation by reflecting that only half the assertion of the Wesleyan schoolmaster is well founded. Materialistic the students certainly are. But atheistic:-are they not rather idolaters; their own persons being the idols of the being whom they adore, and whose characteristics one may learn from the peculiarities of their worship? His shoulders are broad and his chest deep from much practice with the oar upon the placid Elysian streams; his eyes are quick and sure of sight, for he is skilled in foiling the adroit pitcher of the Olympian nine; his vest...
This being the case, he will find that walking offers nearly all to be desired. Not the aimless saunter, but the brisk energetic pace of the man who is in earnest in business or pleasure. It was thus that Dickens walked and performed, for half a century, the most laborious literary work. Thus Tyndall has become a famous mountain-climber, and in his admirable volumes gives us the result of toilsome hours in the laboratory along with the enlivening stories of his Alpine experience...
...accomplish all this, the Society has been at an expense of between four and five hundred dollars, more than half of which was subscribed at the meeting at which the change was decided upon, and the balance was forthcoming in so generous a manner as to give the strongest evidence of the growing interest felt for the society. So much for what has been done. It is in the future, however, that the Sophomores look for the best fruit of their labors, and are anxious that the spirit of progress, inaugurated by them, should find some worthy champions in those...