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...unnecessary kind, and it was perhaps very greatly in consequence of the quality of this match that the recommendation of the Harvard committee was made, and the Faculty's prohibition withdrawn. Whatever the sentiment in England may be in regard to foot-ball, there seems to be a definite notion here that the game should be played in such a manner that it shall offer no great peril to life or even to limb...
...Boston Common and the Public Garden, and place the 'campus' upon the steep slope of Holyoke or Mount Tom, intersect the region below with gorges and water-falls at every half-mile, and let these empty a perpetually cascading stream into Long Island Sound, and you will have some notion of the natural beauties and difficulties of Ithaca...
...Royce abounds in philosophle smartness of this sort, and he has the junior modern's faith in no faith. * * * * Practically, the whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of the book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science...
...learned from a private conversation with Mr. Gough that the simple presence of a Total Abstinence League here was a strong argument against the common notion that Harvard is a centre of intemperance. He urged it as a claim upon those who practice abstinence and have the good name of their college at heart, to come forward and support the League by their membership. Many men refuse to join, merely because they do not believe in pledges. These are among the men who have the greatest respect for their college, and to these I appeal to give the League their...
Apart, then, from these considerations, fatalism does not change our notion of what things are right and what wrong. But what it does change completely is our notion of the nature of right and wrong, of the nature of sin. We sometimes feel that we have thoughts and desires which are profoundly shameful; we have moments and seasons in which we feel very wretched and guilty. There is an anarchy in our souls which seems somehow to accuse us of treason and rebellion. But what does all this become in the scheme of fatalism? A delusion, a disease. Guilt cannot...