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...notice that Mr. Phillips objects to Prof. Moore's article. Mr. Phillips believes that he insults the intelligence of the students who knelt in prayer, for us at Indianapolis. I would hardly say that Mr. Phillips used the right word--I had not seen it as a matter of intelligence. Really, I think, the situation quite balances. The students of thirteen colleges gathered at Indianapolis had the pleasure of satisfying their mystical natures and Christian enthusiasm in an effort to bring "godless" Harvard by prayer into a similarly kneeling posture. On the other hand Professor Moore and Harvard are honestly...
...guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman knelt over the grave of Pedro, she, not knowing of the crime, to pray for the dead man, and he, pretending to, unseen ghostly arms embraced her and drew her down and she died...
...lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner of Will Rogers that Mr. Washburn thought good enough to center in italics in the middle of his pages. Will Rogers still...
...team will meet this week. Both games are expected to be difficult and close, especially the latter, since the Engineer quintet has defeated the University five in three of four games played in the past. The last contest resulted in a 31-17 victory for the Crimson. New Hampshire knelt before Coach Wachter's men with a score of 41-33 last year...
...must not be forgotten that at no great crisis of American history has Harvard failed the nation. During the Revolution when those of wealth and position among the colonies were all "Loyalists" or "Tories," it was before the president of Harvard that our patriotic forefathers knelt on the college grounds at midnight to hear him say the prayer for victory, before they marched to Bunker Hill. It must not be forgotten that before our Civil War the influential, financial element of New England sympathized with the slave holders and was very much against the anti-slave holders and was very...