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...thee behind Me Satan." The accounts of Christ's temptations are often thrust in the back-ground, yet men are tempted in the same way today. The temptation of the Pope to plunge nations into war that he may regain his temporal power resembles the temptation on the mountain; the temptation of business men to combine and raise the price of grain is the temptation to turn stones into bread. Christ is ever willing to forgive sin so long as we make honest efforts to resist temptation. This willingness is seen in the Lord's Prayer and in His saying...
...itself carries interest into these drier facts, fixing names in the memory as denoting the regions of the various peculiarities of land-formation. In late years the knowledge of the more irregular parts of our continent has much advanced and consequently that of the whole structure, since the mountain regions give the main clues to the great geological movements. They represent the tracts of country which have been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges...
...spring of '65, however, a nine was formed which played nine matches. It won seven of these games, - two from the Tri-Mountain Club of Boston, two from the Lowell Club of Boston, one from the Granite Club of Holliston, one from the Charter-Oak Club of Hartford, and one from Williams. The two games which it lost were, - one to the Lowell Club of Boston, and one to the Atlantic Club (professionals) of Brooklyn. In these nine matches Harvard scored 361 runs, to 258 for her opponents, an average of 40 runs to a game for Harvard...
...comes to us abounding in stories of snow and winter. That tale which would prove the most interesting to Harvard men is "A Christmas Ascent of Mount Adams," and because the author is himself an undergraduate - J. Corbin '92. The story is the description of an ascent of a mountain and deals almost entirely with the account of the climb and return. It is in parts cleverly written and is interesting, which is always praise. Walter Camp contributes a practical article on "Training." He points out the difference in the meaning of the term "training" now and what...
...Mountain" is a more imaginative effort and "In the Vatican" is a simply and naturally (and therefore well) told reminiscence of a sight-seer at the Vatican who unconsciously slept in the great chair of the Pope of Rome...