Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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As is the usual custom the excess of expense above a man's ordinary rate of payment will be met by the class funds; so that it will be possible for every man to attend. The first races take place in two weeks, on April 7.
Professor Palmer delivered the third lecture of the William Belden Noble series last evening on the subject, "Ethics and the Fine Arts." He said in part:
The good and the beautiful as abstract qualities are in most ways almost inseparable. It has been said that moral philosophers are really no more than connoisseurs of true beauty. True beauty cannot be sinful, for a distinctive quality of beauty and holiness alike is unity, and the distinctive quality...
Yet although goodness and beauty are in many ways so closely allied, there is between them a distinction. Beauty as shown in a work of art is complete, isolated, finite. Goodness, on the contrary, cannot be conceived except in "growing" terms, and as never quite capable of reaching the goal...
The gymnastic team will leave for New York at six o'clock this afternoon to enter the intercollegiate gymnastic competition which will be held in the Columbia gymnasium Friday night. The following men will go: J.P. Jones '02, captain, J.B. Burnett 2L., A.H. Shearer 1G., E.B. Blakely '02, W.T. Starr...