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...present academic year the Harvard Natural History Society was in an almost defunct condition. There had been for many years a lack of interest in the society and its work, and the few spasmodic attempts at revival, which from time to time had taken place, had come to naught...
...with the fine points of the game. It is this fact that they were so good in some respects while so poor in others that makes the college lose its equanimity over the result of the game. When we saw the eleven's strength and spirit thus come to naught we felt with Othello, "But yet the pity of it, Iago, O ! the pity...
...constitution and refuted the argument for the negative, saying, that although it was impossible to prevent plotting, at least an attempt ought to be made to surpress it and restrain it within legitimate bounds. Mr. Hoar for the negative, stated that all the laws passed by foreign governments availed naught in stopping dynamite and murderous outrage, and that if the United States should make such a treaty, it would bring upon itself all the evils that England and Russia are now suffering. Further remarks upon the subject were made by Messrs. Luce, Hobson, Hansen,. Bowen, Saunders, Macavie and Sanford...
...large a field. All this experience of Cornell and her present troubles are of value in showing the worth of the possession of a certain conservative tradition of scholarship for any college, and also in giving warning how easily it may befall that the richest endowment may come to naught if a false policy ever for a time dominate in the councils of a college...
...That naught on earth can e'er alloy...