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...Paul's Society have printed a list of Services till Easter. As the nature of these Services may not be generally understood, we are desired to say that a small number (about one fifth) of them fall on the same evening with business meetings; the rest of them are not intended to be exclusive, but are meant for all undergraduates who care to attend, on Monday evenings or any of the days set apart by the Episcopal Church, the Evening Service as appointed for that day. Cards giving a list of Services can be procured from' the Secretary, 41 Weld...
...double-scull race, a member of one club may row with a member of another...
COXSWAINS may be selected by the captains irrespective of the clubs...
...coming more directly to the subject, Professor Everett treats successively of the two elements of our civilization, - life and thought. In speaking of life, he compares the "tendency of our society towards individualization," "based upon what may be called the arithmetical view of life, that regards society as made up of units, any one of which is equal to any other," with the patriarchal state that existed among our distant Aryan forefathers. In the latter, each individual found a place allotted him which he was expected to fill with fidelity and loyalty, and in which, "while true to his position...
...Alpine travellers tell us that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids us look and see the fathomless depths of the unknowable above...