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...criticised may learn something from the statements of this writer: He tells how, when Professor Hill first came to Cambridge, the English department was unworthy of its name of department, and if one sees mistakes and insufficiencies now, one ought to judge them not in the light of an ideal but in the light of the past, and then be thankful for present blessings, instead of bewailing those which are not given. We are inclined to believe that the English department, especially owing to the changes in the new pamphlet, is now one of the most efficient in the college...
CHARLES DOWNER, Capt.LOST - A Waterman Ideal Fountain Pen with gold pen and band. Finder please leave with Leavitt & Pierce...
...before his eyes. That a general can contain a particular truth does not seem to have yet entered his head. "Abstinence in the economic sense is never thought of by Christ." And why? "Because it is plain that self sacrifice was considered admirable only in relation to a particular ideal, viz.: "Love of God and one's neighbor." Is then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley and Mill lived? Again, "Saving is not a virtue...
...Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands...
...pattern which became the canon used on the coins and vases of his time. Afterwards Lysippe made a lighter canon of more slender proportions. In its turn this figure was used for all ornamental purposes. All these representations of athletes were realistic, and if they had not led to ideal figures, Greek Art could not have approached its highest level. The danger that the artist should be engrossed in the real was subverted by the ideal in the figures of the gods. It was not until the athletic games became ridiculous and tainted with professionalism that they lost their hold...