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...idea of the ability of our team. Secondly, most of the time during this fall the traps have been out of order so that the pigeons were thrown badly and afforded no good practice. Finally, some arrangement should be made to economize time better. Men are now often obliged to stand around a whole afternoon without a chance to shoot, whereas a little thought would suffice to arrange a satisfactory schedule. The membership list of the club is greater this year than ever before, and the fact that the club is nearly out of debt shows what a prosperous condition...
...themselves, and which are, accordingly, sure to be misleading. It is not difficult for a man to find fault with the deeds of his ancestors and to blame them, on the ground that every evil thought and action had transmitted its effect to him. But it does not so often happen that this man realizes how careful he should be himself to try to counteract the evil influence he may have inherited and to take good care not to add to the store which he must transmit to future generations...
...said books. Yet such is not the case. It is a frequent occurrence for a valuable book to disappear from the shelves just before important thesis are due in some course. The book sometimes reappears a few days after the theses have been handed in, often it does not. It is interesting to conjecture what will happen in the case of a certain book, now out of print, which is urgently needed by the students in one of the advanced Philosophy courses. The volume disappeared just after the date for handing in the theses was fixed by the instructor...
...eleven ever won a harder fought or better deserved victory than did Harvard at Springfield Saturday. The victory is not the result of one year's training alone; it is the consummation of the work begun here years ago. It has been a long, hard and often a discouraging lesson, this learning of the game of football. Three times of late years we have thought that we had it mastered, and each time Yale has sent us back to Cambridge to study it some more. But we have stuck to the task with a dogged perseverance...
Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...