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...Quite a percent of the students were manly fellows who had been soldiers in the Civil War and they were rejoiced to hear Beecher and they noted in the great congregations a majority of men, yet you say Was "men there as a ever rule a did not manlier like thing him." than Beecher facing the English mobs and doing more for his country than any other individual by his speeches ? It can be said that some of the strongest and best men of our country, who made the closest study of the case, believe that Beecher was not guilty...
...times permitted Mae Murray to stand still long enough to act. Grandly she, the widowed Midasette, rebuffed the too confident lips of two Princes. And at the end-when the film became a gorgeous mass of greenery, blazing red uniforms, glittering gems- most elegantly did she submit to the manlier, younger, poorer son of a King...
...Washington Gladden, D.D., gave the third William Belden Noble Lecture in Phillips Brooks House last evening on "Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the Philosopher." There may have been, he said, more comprehensive thinkers, more careful analysts of the soul among the German philosophers but there has never been a manlier man or truer witness of light and truth than Fichte. His system of thought is founded upon the recognition of human freedom...
...meanness and cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they were carried along by public opinion. It is to athletics, principally, that is due the credit for the newer and manlier public sentiment...
...world, and are often directly opposed to them. Not long ago the petty larceny of sign stealing was encouraged by college opinion, and deceiving instructors was not regarded as dishonest. In the progress of time, there has been much improvement, and the general sentiment of college has become much manlier and more sensible. The growth of athletics has assisted considerably in producing this change for the better. There is no more conservative body than the undergraduates of a college. They are slaves to tradition, and think that because a thing has existed for some time it must always continue. Therefore...