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Only two short poems appear in this number. "I Fought a Thousand Battles" is a very smooth and delicate piece of verse, teaching in an easy style a deep moral truth. The only piece of society verse is "A Serenade." Its style is graceful, yet it lacks, as society verse is apt to do, sufficient motive for its production...
...were brought forth by the needs of the time. Between the years 775 and 520 B. C., Israel was invaded many times by great armies-first by the Assyrians, then by the Babylonians, and still later by the Persians. At the same time there was great corruption, social and moral, within the Hebrew nation. These men, believing themselves the mouth-pieces of God, kept the old Jewish faith and patriotism alive by denouncing the wretchedness of the rulers and painting the glorious future of the Jewish people. They declared that all the misfortunes of the nation were manifestations...
...pension legislation of this government is not in the nature of the fulfillment of a contract, but the fulfillment of the nation's moral obligations to the men who fought for it. The magnitude of the work they accomplished deserves a reward in proportion to their needs and the resources of the nation. The Dependent Pension Bill is in keeping with this policy...
...Moral objections...
...Shattuck, L. S., defended the negative side alone, his colleague Mr. Burdett being absent. He agreed with his opponent in considering the moral side of the question not a strong argument. The question at issue was, he said, shall the nine be allowed to go to neighboring towns and play a few games with professionals for gate receipts to pay the professionals with? He cited President Elliot's statement concerning our present social condition and the opinion in which Harvard is held by people at large who, if asked what they think of having the Harvard base-ball club going...