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...gist of our position is, that, if we yield to Yale again this year, we may as well be prepared to yield to her for all time to come, which we have no notion of doing. The conditions on which we insist this year have been copied with minuteness, and as a matter of principle, from the conditions which Yale saw fit to force on us last year; after this year, if Yale wishes to do so, the arrangements between the two colleges will be a matter for mutual concession, but Yale must first make good her unfair extortions...
...sanguine could have expected. It must be remembered first that the men on the eleven have been entirely out of practice for years, secondly that most of them have never played against Yale or Princeton at any time, and thirdly that they have been compelled to overcome a widespread notion, or bitter prejudice, that Harvard men cannot play foot-ball any way, and would do well if they never tried. With all these obstacles in its path the team has met the champion foot-players of America on their own grounds, surrounded by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters...
...mere waif and stray of brilliance, living at random in the sky. Each article of faith must feel the creed around it. Each class in the community must live in the larger life of the community which is above all classes and embraces all. Each notion must be a part of the federation of the world. Each age in history must be conscious of all human history in whose embrace it is held, and of the vast eternity in which all the history of this world is all the time living, as a cloud swims in the limitless...
...course, German; but there are enough from England, America, Switzerland, Egypt, yea and Japan, to give a cosmopolitan flavor to the gathering. "The Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the Queen," and "Hail Columbia" are all roared out together in amiable discord. Some student conceives the gay notion of beating time on the table with his beer mug. The happy idea is infectious; and a thousand mugs thump ponderously upon the deal boards. Then all begin to stamp in unison and smite the tables with their canes. Even this ear-splitting uproar does not do full justice to the enthusiasm...
...elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading, writing and geography" are the first things a boy is taught in school, he naturally gets to consider them as elementary and childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have...