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...class, and in the past it has always been an occasion of much harmony and good fellowship. It is very desirable that the '90 dinner should be a success, and this cannot be unless every man makes it a duty to be present and tries his best to help on class feeling. The committee would like to have some idea of the number of men intending to be present, in order that they may make suitable arrangements. But as yet barely a dozen men have signed the book. It is earnestly desired that there should be at least one hundred...
...loss of Captain Griffing. Besides him seven other members of last year's team have left college, so that to be able to wrest the championship from Princeton and to bring it back to its natural home all the candidates will have to work their best and help the captain to their utmost abilities...
...loss will be greater than that of missing an ordinary lecture. If, as Professor Norton maintains, people in America neglect that side of cultivation which ancient Greece and her works of art represent, there can be no better way for Americans to redeem themselves than by contributing to help on the excavations of Delphi and then profiting by the result. There is probably no richer place for the excavation of works of Greek art than at Delphi to-day. The great nations of Europe, more appreciative of the advantages of such work, appropriate liberal sums from the state treasury...
...called to the performance of some sacred duty, we first turn to the examination of self, and find that we have few of the qualities for a successful leader. Therefore we turn away and say that another must start the work and then we shall give our help. If we would only surrender self to God, we should find that He would give us the grace and strength to perform successfully any duty to which He might call...
...cannot be better described than in the words of President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, in the last number of the Atlantic Monthly: "It is the province of the university to take men who have the drill of the academy and the breadth of view which the college gives, and help them to carry forward self-chosen lines of special study to the limits of the world's attained knowledge, and on into regions yet unexplored. Not the teaching how to walk, nor yet the easy and rapid journeying along the beaten paths of knowledge, but the exploration of fields remote...