Word: offing
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Professor Palmer delivered the fourth of the William Belden Noble lectures last night in Brooks House. The special subject was "Ethics and Religion." Professor Palmer began by showing that in religion we have a field far more closely allied to ethics than either Law or the Fine Arts. There are...
In the first place, goodness and holiness are recognized as practically synonymous by all great thinkers, irrespective of sect or creed. Not Christ alone, but such philosophers as Spinoza have spoken of love as the supreme quality in man, and the thought has been repeated by those of later times...
Coming to more definite points of resemblance, we see that duty, however simple, is a religious act; for a failure to perform it involves the suffering of innocent persons. Again, duty is universal; that is, in following it we conform to a universal law, and any omission of it must...
Everybody not seriously engaged in other branches of University athletics, with or without experience, is urged to report to the football squad. Heavy men and halfbacks are especially desired. The squad will be divided into two teams today and next week games will be played every day. Everybody must be...
The Department of Geology will offer this year in connection with the work of the Summer School, an advanced course in geological field-work in New York and Connecticut. The work in the corresponding course last summer was in Montana and the Yellowstone Park, but this trip has been abandoned...