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THERE is no need that I should dwell upon the aggravations of this strange providence, or call attention to the proportions of this great sorrow. Rather let me gather up that which remains to us and for our comfort: the precious memories of Arthur's earthly life the hopes and expectations respecting his immortal life that we are permitted to cherish...
...each arrogates to himself the right to a voice in the administration. The time will come when an unselfish policy will prevail; when the people will give up their petty individualities, and leave their destinies in the hands of a Supreme Ruler, who in turn will sacrifice himself, if need be, for his people...
...purpose, says ???, "to make a comparison between these two games." If he had made the comparison, he would have seen how much the radical difference in their nature affects the present point of dispute. Lacrosse, like every other college game, except tennis, needs but a single field of fixed dimensions. To tennis, as a whole, there are no limits, except the limits set by the number of students in the College; for one or two courts are not tennis. Take away twenty of the courts on the fields, and tennis would still be a game at Harvard. The present question...
...work of the Chaucer Society is of great interest to all students of Chaucer, and there is urgent need of new members in order to enlarge to the utmost its capabilities; and we fail to see why Harvard, already so justly renowned in classics, mathematics, and philology, should look with sluggish indifference upon the great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers...
...when you have finished your diurnal sweater of five miles, - a mere nothing, Jim will call it. No! If a man bores you, you can go to sleep; if an engagement is unpleasant, you can be disagreeable to make the score even; and I'm sure you do not need any external charms to fascinate with, when your intrinsic qualities are what they are. Take my word for it; training don't pay. To put it concretely, "It ain't what it's cracked up to be." Why, look at me. I've trained! - rowed, base-balled, foot-balled...