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...will state the case of one doctrine in particular; then the inquiry will be taken up: What in the nature of things can be assumed to correspond to our moral needs, to offer them encouragement and religious support? Two or three theories will be passed in review under this head, notably the modern doctrine of progress as an universal law, and the doctrines in general that regard the world as showing us some kind of historical process. Then another view will be suggested as giving us another and higher sense in which we can assume that reality answers our moral...
...large number of the officials at the head of the present administration are college men. Arthur is a graduate of Union, David Davis of Kenyon, Frelinghuysen of Rutgers, Lincoln of Harvard, Folger of Hobart and Brewster of Princeton. Besides these, in the Forty-seventh Congress now holding its last session, 39 of the 76 senators have received a collegiate education, and in the House of Representatives, 152 out of 299 have enjoyed similar advantages. - [University Quarterly...
...pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with no intention...
...entry, and will reach several feet above the upper story. This latter extension is made in order that students in the upper story of the centre hall, which is one story higher than the ells, after crossing the roof of the ell can easily descend the ladders. At the head of the third story an iron balcony will be placed...
General Sherman is desirous of retiring from the head of the army after the present year...