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...Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires is range, and this is only acquired by trigonometrical exactness in establishing the position and measuring the relations of isolated points. Moreover, what a man has just learned is not to be called knowledge. It continues for a good while yet a foreign substance in the mind and becomes...
...University, it was only partially carried out. Owing to the manner in which affairs turned then, there are two societies today, neither of which acknowledges the other as superior and on whose respective merit it would not be expected that any disinterested persons would be willing to pass judgment. If some method for coalescing all the good speakers can be found, it would assuredly be well; we simply point out that the method sugested is inadequate...
...duty to realize that the power of the kingdom of God is a present power and not one that is to come at the day of judgment. God's dominion is growing stronger day by day and is gaining power over the world. He who accepts Christ and the love that Christ's life symbolizes, partakes of this victory over the mind, and gains the only true happiness...
Though President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...CLARK'S SPEECH.Walter Haven Clark spoke last for Yale. He referred the audience to the lexicon definition of independent and allegiance and presented the resolution in its new form: "That political action in accordance with one's own will, judgment or conscience is preferable to unswerving allegiance to party." With the resolution thus in shape he proposed to strike at the root of the matter and consider what is a man's chief duty to civil society. Without doubt it is to establish and maintain a civil government that shall promote the chief ends of civil society, life, liberty...