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DECEMBER 2. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel. Rev. James Freeman Clark, D. D., 7.30 P. M. "The sin which easily besets us; and the good which is ready to help...
...kind in the country) does not agree that his education has been of important service to him in his struggle for existence. When in need it did not secure for him a better place than that of car conductor, and as a car conductor it is no help to him. He can pull the bell to stop and start the car, and can make change no more skillfully than if his head had never ached over a Latin grammar or he had never read a French novel. And yet it would not be advisable to argue from this that...
...course, men may become great without any such preliminary course of education, as our history shows, but it will be in spite of such a lack and not because of it. Statesmanship is a trade to be learned as much as any other, and a liberal education cannot help being a great aid in mastering...
...only way to get these intelligent views is to study for them. The time has now gone past when it was deemed beneath a gentleman's dignity to meddle in the mess into which politics had fallen. No one is now too good to lay hold and help. Education is the only way to make our voters intelligent, and the more college-bred men, who are an educated class in themselves, we send out-men who have an earnest purpose as we believe most men do have,-the better will it be for the country. There has always been...
...advice, but the work must rightly be done by '87, for the greater share of the praise is to be theirs in case they win. A change must come for the better, and the only danger is that it will come too late. The whole college stands ready to help '87 in the necessary "brace", and we trust the freshmen will take this in hand immediately, and that improvement will be rapid but steady from now until the Yale game...