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...nations of Africa are little civilized, and are too lazy to work much. Europeans can not live long in the climate, and so an attempt has been made to introduce Chinese and Hindoo laborers to carry on the necessary industrial work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecutre on Africa. | 4/11/1895 | See Source »

...team are necessarily considerable, and they must be in large part defrayed by contributions from the class. It is in matters like this that the real strength of class feeling can be tested, since students generally part reluctantly with money, unless for some object in which they feel a live interest. Ninety-eight, if she lacks in class interest, should yet have class pride enough to prevent her from leaving any deficit in her baseball accounts at the close of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1895 | See Source »

Many men think that in their youths they can sow their wild oats and live for pleasure. When they are ready to settle in life, they say, they will reform and become pure, religious men. They are mistaken. There is no short cut from sin to righteousness, and the only thing that can atone for their past is a complete change of inner feeling, which will not come at command. Good aspirations must precede any effort to reform, and the starting point must be the change of the very purpose of one's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 3/11/1895 | See Source »

...feel cold and the gnawing pangs of hunger; he is still suffering and in need of sympathy. There are three classes of people whom the Salvation Army means to labor for. The first is the destitute, hungry and distressed; those who are forced from poverty to live in the slums. The second is the vicious and drunken class. We should give to these certainly as much sympathy as we would give to a fallen animal. If a horse falls in the street, there are many willing hands to help him up. These vicious people in the slums are fallen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL BOOTH'S ADDRESS. | 2/21/1895 | See Source »

Georgetown has proposed the dropping of the mile walk and the substitution of the three mile run, and Swarthmore wants all men shut off college teams who have in the years previous been trained by athletic clubs. Discussion on the question of the walk promises to be rather lively. Swarthmore's move is aimed against the men who live during the summer at the expense of an athletic club. It does not seem likely to go through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY'S I. C. A. A. MEETING. | 2/21/1895 | See Source »