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Lives, he said, from the cradle to the grave, should be a happy salutation from aftar. This is gained by three things, manly virtue, spiritual aspiration, a looking up to some ideal and a religious decision; which is the mastery of life by the spirit that is in man. The choir sang the following selections: O How Amiable-West; O Lord Thouhast Searehed Me Out-Croft (1677-1727). The latter consisted of a solo by Mr. Swarts, a trio, Messrs. Merrill, Swarts and Hayes and a chorus...
...said about "form" and "skill" in rowing. Mr. Stevenson thinks skill to be the essential thing for a fast crew, but the best way to bring a crew up to a degree of skill is by means of form. He thinks that for steady development a fixed standard or ideal is necessary, and a system which the experience of each year will tend to improve. "A full and complete realization of this standard constitutes skill, and is attained, or rather approached with a college crew by thorough and careful adherence to the requirements of form...
...have poems showing its form. The song is a myth signifying the victory of the seasons. Summer appeared to the old Teutonic tribes as a kind god with golden hair and blue eyes as distinguished from winter, the dark god. Siegfried, the hero of the story and the Teutonic ideal of youth and strength was the summer god. Spring was represented as a virgin in order that she might marry summer. Brunhilde was the spring god. Winter, against whom summer warred, was termed the Dragon. These mythical personages came in time to be regarded as real. The Dragon becomes...
Ethics deal with ideal conceptions; not with what men actually do, but with what they should do, and much as we may regret it, moral ideas do not depend on fact but on what should be. So the first service of ethics is the enlarging of our philosophy. Ethics cannot take the place of all philosophy but it can endow us with the great gift of moral truth...
Although it is generally considered unnecessary, and even a waste of time for a boy who expects to go into business to go to college, Mr. Smith thought this idea is being gradually eradicated, for the ideal merchant of the present times must be an educated man in order to keep up with the times. Integrity is of course absolutely essential to a business man. The speaker said too that every young man should learn to speak French and German if he wished to have the best chance of succeeding, and the Spanish language must be regarded as of increasing...