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...intellect, religion to the moral nature. Science deals with what we see around us, with what is tangible; religion is something that has to do with the unseen and the future. Thus it is but natural that science should be the more popular among men. It is often objected against religion that it is narrow. There can be no doubt that in the church there is some narrowness. Different sects are always quarreling and with regard to unimportant points there come differences that break up whole towns and even sometimes cause wars. It is not only in religion, however, that...
...often objected to religion that it places on a young man many restrictions that debar him from many of the pleasures of life. Though this may be somewhat true, the privation is no more than what a young man must undergo in any training. When he is working for an athletic team he must always be denying himself. In religion all the restriction he must place over himself is to learn to control himself and to build up his character on a firm foundation...
Colors are sometimes assumed by animals for purposes of warning, that is for keeping off the animals that are natural enemies. This is done either by a feigned resemblance to an animal of a different and often dangerous kind, or by an appearance of being wounded and therefore useless to an enemy. Pictures were shown of hermit-crabs, which attached to themselves sea-anemonies for the purpose of self-defence, the anemonies being offensive to hostile fishes. One picture represented a deep-sea fish which attracts its prey by a lure in the shape of a phosphorescent light; another showed...
...fallacy to think that football men are bruisers. They are chosen for their pluck, energy and courage, and these requisites are more often found in the more intellectual and gentlemanly students than among the brutal ones. Gill and Cowan, who were perhaps the most famous tackles who ever played football, were both ministers, and four out of the last six captains at Yale have been in good standing in the University and prominent...
...natural for one to think that the chief obstacle to the representation of these old authors on our stage is the indecency with which they are so often charged. There is, however, another difficulty. The plays were essentially plays of manners and it is almost impossible to find actors today capable of feeling and appreciating the parts. The attempts of some of our better actors and actresses to play these parts have been dreary failures...