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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HAVE always liked the Professor; and I was therefore pleased, when, during the past summer, I happened to meet him at a certain well-known boarding-place in Sandwich, at the very foot of Whiteface, with Kiarsarge and Cho-corua to the east, and Passaconaway north-west ward. I enjoyed a great many rambles in his company, especially the one week that there were no young people there except myself, when he took pity on my loneliness; and one day in particular I remember for the strange story he told me. We had started early in the morning...
...capacity for becoming benevolent, patient, humble, and loving, depends, however, in no way on the particular creed of the individual. In times past it was quite common to insist that, in order to be virtuous, a man must entertain certain beliefs about the nature and origin of the Universe, about Immortality, Free Will, &c. Now it is different. If popular education has done any thing at all, it is to show to the satisfaction of every clear-headed thinker that one may believe that the sun stands still, and yet be a bad man; while another may believe that...
...letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets are by It unutterable. A Sphinx? No, a thousand times more than the Sphinx. For what to us is the enigma of the Sphinx, a riddle of the dead past, compared with the enigmas of our living world...
...justly praised for the honest and hard work which it has done. Although unsuccessful last Saturday, no one who saw the game can have failed to admire its pluck, and to recognize that the Team gave evidence of more faithful training than that of the past two years. The faults by which both the Princeton and Yale games were lost are such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed us, man for man, in almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems...
...advocates of outside contests urge that the more experience a man has in racing the better he will be fitted for University Crew work, but we think that too much stress is apt to be laid on this point. Apart from its great expense, no Freshman race of the past few years has been so arranged as to draw many spectators. It is natural and fitting that the University Race with Yale should absorb almost all the enthusiasm of the persons in and out of College who are interested in rowing, and it must nearly always happen...